Data Envelopment Analysis in the Service Sector

The public and private service sector shows some specificity that classical measurement and benchmarking instruments normally fail to serve. Missing prices for public goods or distinct firm-specific solutions to the same problem - and, thus, different production techniques - are only two of the freq...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Westermann, Georg (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:German
Published: Wiesbaden Deutscher Universitätsverlag 1999, 1999
Edition:1st ed. 1999
Series:Harzer wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Schriften
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Data Envelopment Analysis: Twenty Years Out
  • Treating non-discretionary variables one way or the other: implications for efficiency scores and their interpretation
  • Non-Radial Efficiency as Semi-Radial Efficiency
  • Continuity of the BCC Efficiency Measure
  • DEA Models via Goal Programming
  • Bounded vs. Unbounded Noise in Efficiency Estimation: Performance of Alternative Estimators
  • Price Indexes for Nonmarketed Goods
  • Lessons Learned for DEA Practice from Health Care Applications in the UK
  • Recent Advances in Data Envelopment Analysis: An Illustrative Application to the U.S. Public Accounting Industry
  • Combining DEA and “Transformation-Stages”: Management Strategies for the Disability Service Units of the St. Georg Association
  • DEA in the ecological context — An overview
  • Measuring Public Spending Efficiency in Brazilian Municipalities: A Nonparametric Approach
  • Efficiency and Productivity of Norwegian Colleges
  • Efficiency and financial performances in telecommunications