Cherchye, Laurens; De Rock, Bram; Hennebel, Veerle - In: Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 48 (2014) 1, pp. 29-37
We reconsider the motivation of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), the non-parametric technique that is widely employed for analyzing productive efficiency in academia, the private sector and the public sector. We first argue that the conventional engineering motivation of DEA can be problematic...