Data Envelopment Analysis a Comprehensive Text With Models, Applications, References and Dea-Solver Software
- List Price: $119.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub
- Publish date: 12/01/1999
In other applications, DEA has been used to supply new insights into business activities and into the methods that have been used to evaluate these activities. These include "benchmarking" studies of professional organizations inclusing legal and accounting societies, as well as organizational forms -- such as evaluating the relative efficiencies of the "mutual" vs. "corporate" forms of organization that are used in the U.S. insurance industry. Finally, DEA can also be used to evaluate objects as well as governmental, business and societal activities.
Data Envelopment Analysis: A Comprehensive Text with Models, Applications, References, and DEA-Solver Software is designed to provide a systematic introduction to DEA and its uses as a multifaceted tool for evaluating problemsin a variety of contexts. Each chapter accompanies its developments with simple numerical examples and discussions of actual applications. The objective is to introduce students, researchers, and practitioners in business, economics, engineering and the sciences to Data Envelopment Analysis.