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Measuring the efficiency of decision making units

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A nonlinear (nonconvex) programming model provides a new definition of efficiency for use in evaluating activities of not-for-profit entities participating in public programs and methods for objectively determining weights by reference to the observational data for the multiple outputs and multiple inputs that characterize such programs.
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This article is published in European Journal of Operational Research.The article was published on 1978-11-01 and is currently open access. It has received 25433 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Programming paradigm & Data envelopment analysis.

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An experiment in the use of data envelopment analysis for evaluating the efficiency of uk university departments of accounting

TL;DR: Data envelopment analysis was introduced to the accounting literature by its inventors, Charnes and Cooper (1980) as discussed by the authors, but accountants generally seem to have overlooked its existence.
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A data envelopment analysis approach to measuring vendor performance

TL;DR: In this article, the use of data envelopment analysis (DEA) as a tool for measuring the performance of vendors on multiple criteria and for use in vendor negotiations is discussed.
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Performance evaluation of Italian airports: A data envelopment analysis

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors address empirically financial and operational performance of Italian airports using data envelopment analysis (DEA) methodology, and test variable relationships to measure the proximity of the airports to the frontiers of best practices.
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Applying the stochastic frontier approach to measure hotel managerial efficiency in Taiwan

TL;DR: In this article, a stochastic cost frontier function with three inputs (i.e. labor, food and beverage, and materials) and one output was used to estimate hotel efficiency.
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Encyclopedia of Decision Making and Decision Support Technologies

TL;DR: The Encyclopedia of Decision Making and Decision Support Technologies presents a critical mass of research on the most up-to-date research on human and computer support of managerial decision making, including discussion on support of operational, tactical, and strategic decisions, human vs. computer system support structure, individual and group decision-making, and multi-criteria decision making as mentioned in this paper.
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The Measurement of Productive Efficiency

M. J. Farrell
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Theory of cost and production functions

TL;DR: In this article, a unified treatment of cost and production functions underlie the economic theory of production is presented, and the duality between cost function and production function is developed by introducing a cost correspondence, showing that these two functions are given in terms of each other by dual minimum problems.
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General competitive analysis

TL;DR: General competitive analysis, General competitive analysis as mentioned in this paper, General Competitive Analysis (GCA), general competitive analysis (GCA), GCA, GCA(GCA), GCA
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Cost and production functions

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a mathematical interpretation of the duality between cost and production function, and present a heuristic principle of minimum costs and a Cobb-Douglas production function.
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