Super-efficiency infeasibility in the presence of nonradial measurement (Q2004125)

Summary: The original radial VRS super-efficiency model in DEA excludes the DMU under evaluation from the reference set. However, it must lead to the problem of infeasibility specifically when the DMU under consideration is at the extremity of the frontier. In this paper, a modified nonradial VRS super-efficiency model is established. The super-efficiency model in the presence of nonradial measurement still maintains some good properties, and the original radial VRS super-efficiency model infeasibility can also be detected through it. Our model with nonradial measurement can help decision makers allocate input resources and arrange production activities because it finds an efficient benchmark DMU, which is different from the reference DMU under radial measurement.