Measuring super-efficiency in data envelopment analysis in the presence of infeasibility

Measuring super-efficiency in data envelopment analysis in the presence of infeasibility

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Article ID: iaor20053367
Country: Netherlands
Volume: 161
Issue: 2
Start Page Number: 545
End Page Number: 551
Publication Date: Mar 2005
Journal: European Journal of Operational Research
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Super-efficiency data envelopment analysis (DEA) model is obtained when a decision making unit (DMU) under evaluation is excluded from the reference set. Because of the possible infeasibility of super-efficiency DEA model, the use of super-efficiency DEA model has been restricted to the situations where constant returns to scale (CRS) are assumed. It is shown that one of the input-oriented and output-oriented super-efficiency DEA models must be feasible for any efficient DMU under evaluation if the variable returns to scale frontier consists of increasing, constant, and decreasing returns to scale DMUs. We use both input- and output-oriented super-efficiency models to fully characterize the super-efficiency. When super-efficiency is used as an efficiency stability measure, infeasibility means the highest super-efficiency (stability). If super-efficiency is interpreted as input saving or output surplus achieved by a specific efficient DMU, infeasibility does not necessarily mean the highest super-efficiency.

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