Article ID: | iaor19983077 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 48 |
Issue: | 6 |
Start Page Number: | 591 |
End Page Number: | 599 |
Publication Date: | Jun 1997 |
Journal: | Journal of the Operational Research Society |
Authors: | Rousseau John J., Li Susan X., Huang Zhimin |
This paper presents a general method for determining rates of change of outputs with respect to inputs along efficient facets of the Pareto-optimal frontier common to several empirical production possibility sets in Data Envelopment Analysis. As a prerequisite step, a theoretical analysis is provided for identifying the efficient facets. Non-negativity of these rates of change is discussed via ‘cone direction’ developments in both the input and output spaces.