Article ID: | iaor20042403 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 147 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 198 |
End Page Number: | 216 |
Publication Date: | May 2003 |
Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
Authors: | Beasley J.E. |
Keywords: | statistics: data envelopment analysis |
In this paper we show that data envelopment analysis (DEA) can be viewed as maximising the average efficiency of the decision-making units (DMUs) in an organisation. Building upon this we present DEA based models for: (a) allocating fixed costs to DMUs and (b) allocating input resources to DMUs. Simultaneous to allocating input resources output targets are also decided for each DMU. Numeric results are presented for a number of example problems taken from the literature.