Returns to scale and most productive scale size in DEA with negative data

DOI10.1016/j.ejor.2016.05.065zbMath1347.90056OpenAlexW2415496458MaRDI QIDQ323563

Robabeh Eslami, Pradipta Chaudhury, Mohammad Khoveyni, Biresh K. Sahoo

Publication date: 7 October 2016

Published in: European Journal of Operational Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2016.05.065

zbMATH Keywords

data envelopment analysismost productive scale sizelevel (static) efficiency vs. growth (dynamic) efficiencynegative datareturns to scale vs. returns to growth

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Management decision making, including multiple objectives (90B50) Special problems of linear programming (transportation, multi-index, data envelopment analysis, etc.) (90C08)

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