Article ID: | iaor20105318 |
Volume: | 61 |
Issue: | 8 |
Start Page Number: | 1297 |
End Page Number: | 1301 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2010 |
Journal: | Journal of the Operational Research Society |
Authors: | Briec W, Leleu H, Boussemart J-P |
Keywords: | statistics: data envelopment analysis, programming: linear |
This note generalizes analytical relationships among activity variables of Data envelopment analysis models previously derived in a previous article by the authors of this note. We relax the assumption of constant returns to scale by showing that the key results hold under a weaker assumption of homogeneity. We use the notion of α-returns to scale to extend the analysis to strictly increasing and decreasing returns, covering now the whole range of returns to scale for multi-output homogenous technologies.