In this paper we have used data envelopment analysis (DEA) and econometric models to analyse the impact of research and development and innovation on relative efficiency and productivity change and firm performance in Indian pharmaceutical industry (IPI) between 1998 and 2007 which covers the...

Cone ratios, assurance regions and similar data envelopment analysis (DEA) approaches measuring the efficiency of decision making units (DMU) restrict their ability to “show themselves in the most favorable light”. Indeed they limit the relations or the multipliers of inputs and outputs as...

The performance of the airline industry has been widely studied using data envelopment analysis (DEA). Many existing DEA-based airline performance studies have used the standard DEA model, with some minor modifications. These studies have ignored the internal structure relative to the measures...

The strategic importance of vendor evaluation is well established in the purchasing literature. Several evaluation methodologies that consider multiple performance attributes have been proposed for vendor evaluation purposes. While these techniques range from scoring models that utilize prior...

The present paper aims at evaluating the performance of 26 Public Sector Banks (PSBs) operating in India by using one-stage performance evaluation model on the basis of Human Resource Deployment (HRD). Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is employed for computing the efficiency scores for individual...