In production economics, little attention is paid to transportation costs in any discussion of cost minimization by the firm. When the output is produced at multiple locations, transportation costs can become quite important in light of the geographical dispersion of plants and markets. In...

Oggetto di studio è l’efficienza dell’Unione di Comuni nella gestione della funzione di polizia municipale. Con tecniche DEA, emerge che i Comuni in Unione conseguono una efficienza di scala più elevata rispetto ai Comuni non associati mentre l’efficienza tecnica complessiva e inferiore....

Information technology (IT) involve a wide set of risks. Enterprise information systems are a major developing form of information technology involving their own set of risks, thus creating potential blind spots. This paper describes risk management issues involved in enterprise resource...

The importance of the mining activities, the driving force of industrialization has been realized every passing day. Mining products have been using functionally within energy, agriculture and manufacturing as inputs in daily life and they also symbolize countries economic power. Turkey is a...

This paper extends the DEA model to considering the decision-making unit (DMU) with the network structure. We define the network DMU and its network DEA efficiency based on the postulate system. On the series structure of the DMU, we further discuss a sequential optimization model originally...