Search Results - subject:"Decision Making Units"

Mergers and acquisitions based on DEA approach

Wu, Jie; An, Qingxian; Liang, Liang - In: International Journal of Applied Management Science 3 (2011) 3, pp. 227-240

selection. In this paper, DEA was applied to support the decision making of mergers and acquisitions for decision making units …

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Exploring the operating efficiency of semiconductor industry by a sustainable development approach

Hung, Shiu-Wan; Liu, Mei-Chun - In: International Journal of Green Economics 4 (2010) 2, pp. 145-155

firms, each of which was treated as a decision making units (DMUs) under DEA analysis. The empirical result reveals that the …

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Roles for unilateral action in networks

de Bruijn, Hans - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 18 (2005) 4, pp. 318-329

Purpose – Decision making in networks is multilateral and interaction‐based and is often contrasted with unilateral decision making in a hierarchy. The purpose of this paper is to examine whether unilateral interventions can nevertheless be functional in networks. Design/methodology/approach...

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Simulating Weights Restrictions in Data Envelopment Analysis by Means of Unobserved DMUs

Thanassoulis, E.; Allen, R. - In: Management Science 44 (1998) 4, pp. 586-594

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a method for assessing the comparative efficiencies of decision making units (e … using value judgments in DEA, based on unobserved Decision Making Units. In so doing, it opens up a whole new approach for …

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A Bi-Extremal Principle for Frontier Estimation and Efficiency Evaluations

Banker, R. D.; Charnes, A.; Cooper, W. W.; Schinnar, A. P. - In: Management Science 27 (1981) 12, pp. 1370-1382

A new approach is supplied for locating efficiency frontiers and evaluating the efficiency of Decision Making Units … efficiency of decision making units. Eur. J. Oper. Res. 2 (6). See also, Short communication. Eur. J. Oper. Res. 3 (1979) 339 … and Rhodes's work (Charnes, A., W. W. Cooper, E. Rhodes, 1978. Measuring the efficiency of decision making units. Eur. J …

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