Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to suggest a model for evaluating the best power plants in the presence of weight restrictions. Design/methodology/approach – The paper introduces a model, which is based on slacks‐based model (SBM) (one of the data envelopment analysis (DEA) models)....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a slack-based measure (SBM) model in the presence of dual-role factor. Then it is applied in supplier selection problem. Design/methodology/approach – The developed model in this paper is based on data envelopment analysis (DEA) technique....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a model based on data envelopment analysis (DEA) and program evaluation and review technique/critical path method (PERT/CPM) for determining prospective benchmarks. Design/methodology/approach – The idea of determining prospective benchmark...

Purpose: Despite unanimity in the literature that eco-innovation (EI) leads to sustainable development, evidence remains limited on measuring EI efficiency with the Malmquist productivity index (MPI). In conventional data envelopment analysis (DEA) models, decision-making units (DMUs) are...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose an innovative algorithm for ranking suppliers in the presence of volume discount offers, with regard to various criteria, based on super‐efficiency analysis. Design/methodology/approach – This paper introduces an innovative approach, which...

The operational performance of airline includes production and consumption technologies for transporting passengers and cargoes. By determining the performance of airlines' operations one can get further insights from the obtained results and can develop appropriate policy for improving the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a straightforward model for selecting slightly non‐homogeneous vendors. Design/methodology/approach – In this paper the use of the interval data envelopment analysis (DEA) is suggested. The bounds of intervals are constant and can be...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a data envelopment analysis (DEA) method for customers' evaluation. Design/methodology/approach – This paper introduces a variable return to scale (VRS) cross‐efficiency (one of the DEA models) to evaluate customers. This new model can...

Despite the increased awareness of the conceptual and practical definition of corporate sustainability, questions remain on how to measure performance. The objective of this paper is to advance our understanding of the measurement of corporate sustainability management by introducing a data...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce an innovative data envelopment analysis (DEA) model entitled “Non‐binary Arithmetic Operator Dual‐role” (NAOD) under free disposability assumption for selecting the refrigerated containers in cold chain management (CCM)....