Abstract Production takes place in complex networks. An important question is how the efficiency of the whole network is related to that of the individual production units forming the network. A general network production theory with following characteristics is developed. Analysed networks may...

Abstract The paper systematically extends a recently developed general production theory for networks of arbitrarily complex structure by utilising multi-criteria analysis to include undesirable objects as inputs and outputs. By embedding Koopmans’ linear activity analysis into the broader...

The question of how to properly model production systems with unintended outputs has proven both controversial and of particular interest to the productivity and efficiency community. The paper explains why some of the arguments put forward in these controversies are hardly convincing for...

Free or strong disposability is a common assumption in orthodox economics and is often postulated in axiomatic approaches to efficiency measurement that uses methods of data envelopment analysis (DEA). It states that it should always be possible to increase the input quantities or decrease the...

Joint production is a term with a long history in economics, encompassing a variety of ubiquitous production types that usually generate both main products as well as desirable and undesirable byproducts. However, studies in economic history show that important phenomena subsumed under this term...

Joint production is a term with a long history in economics, encompassing a variety of ubiquitous production types that usually generate both main products as well as desirable and undesirable byproducts. However, studies in economic history show that important phenomena subsumed under this term...

Stochastic Non-smooth Envelopment of Data (StoNED) is a semi-parametric and stochastic method of efficiency measurement that combines some of the virtues of the classical counterparts, namely Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) versus Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Recently, it has been...