Data envelopment analysis : from normative to descriptive performance evaluation

Nadia Vazquez Novoa

The question of modern performance evaluation has been extensively discussed in the literature, leading to a call for models including non-optimizing behaviors of decision makers and non-financial performance criteria. A promising management instrument is data envelopment analysis (DEA), which enables the aggregation of financial and non-financial indicators into a single measure. This work contributes to a better understanding of DEA from two perspectives: (i) it offers a normative solution to the zero-value weight problem and (ii) it provides the first experimental results on behavioral DEA based on an original taxonomy of cognitive biases related to performance evaluation. Behavioral DEA is a completely new research area which yields plenty of research opportunities. --

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Year of publication:	[2017]
Authors:	Vazquez Novoa, Nadia
Other Persons:	Ahn, Heinz (degree supervisor) ; Oelsnitz, Dietrich von der (degree supervisor)
Institutions:	Technische Universität Braunschweig (degree granting) ; Peter Lang GmbH (publisher)
Publisher:	Frankfurt am Main : PL Academic Research
Subject:	Data-Envelopment-Analyse \| Data envelopment analysis \| Normative Ökonomik \| Normative economics \| Behavioral Accounting \| Behavioral accounting \| Kognition \| Cognition \| Theorie \| Theory \| Entscheidungsfindung \| Data Envelopment Analysis \| Verhaltensökonomie \| Performance Management
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