Modeling Performance Measurement - Applications and Implementations Issues in DEA

This volume addresses advanced DEA methodology and techniques developed for modeling unique new performance evaluation issues. Many numerical examples, real management cases and verbal descriptions make it very valuable for researchers and practitioners.

List of contents

Preface.- Data Envelopment Analysis.- Measuring Efficiency of Highway Maintenance Patrols.- Prioritizing Highway Accident Sites.- Benchmarking Models: Evaluating the effect of e-business activities.- Factor Selection Issues in Bank Branch Performance.- Multicomponent Efficiency Measurement in Banking.- DEA and Multicriteria Decision Modeling.- Modeling Rank Order Data.- Resource Allocation in an R and D Department.- Resource Constrained DEA.- Multicomponent Efficiency: Measurement and core business identification in multiplant firms.- Implementation of Robotics: Identifying Efficient Implementors.- Setting Performance Targets for New DMUs.- Aggregating Preference Rankings.- Ranking Players in Round Robin Tournaments.- Context-Dependent DEA: Models and extension.- Evaluating Power Plant Efficiency: Hierarchical Models.- Subject Index.

Summary

Modeling Performance Measurement: Applications and Implementation Issues in DEA presents unified results from several authors’ recent DEA research. Theory is provided for DEA researchers for further development and possible extensions.

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"… Generell ist die DEA ein interessanter Ansatz zur Messung der relativen Effizienz und zur Performancebewertung verschiedenster Entscheidungseinheiten. Dabei bewegt sich das Buch ... zwischen wissenschaftlichem Anspruch und praktischer Anwendung. ... Alleinstellungsmerkmal des Buches ist, dass es die Vielfalt der Einsatzmöglichkeiten der DEA aufzeigt und zugleich vermittelt, inwieweit methodische Anpassungen erforderlich und zu realisieren sind. Insoweit setzt es vertiefte DEA-Kenntnisse voraus ... Der Aufbau des Buches ist durch die anwendungsbezogene Schwerpunktsetzung didaktisch gelungen ... Anwendern aus ... Wissenschaft und ... Unternehmenspraxis kann das Buch ... empfohlen werden ..." (Matthias Meyer, in: OR News - OR Spectrum, July 2008, Issue 33, S. 66 f.)

Product details

• Authors: W. D. Cook, Wade Cook, Wade D Cook, Wade D. Cook, J. Zhu, Joe Zhu
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2005
• EAN: 9780387241371
• ISBN: 978-0-387-24137-1
• No. of pages: 408
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 26 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 748 g
• Illustrations: 87 Tabellen,
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Operations Research, B, Business, Business and Management, Business & management, Business and Management, general, Operations Management, Operations Research/Decision Theory, Operations Research and Decision Theory, Management decision making, Management science, Management of specific areas, Engineering economy, Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing, Engineering economics, Industrial Management, Decision Making, Quantitative Economics, Production management, Engineering: general, Econometrics & economic statistics, Econometrics