This book covers recent advances in efficiency evaluations, most notably Data Envelopment
Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) methods. It introduces the underlying …

When Harold Fried, et al. published The Measurement of Productive Efficiency: Techniques
and Applications with OUP in 1993, the book received a great deal of professional interest …

The way plastics are currently produced, used and disposed does not capture the economic
benefits of a more 'circular'approach and is dramatically harming the environment. It is …

Reducing carbon emissions is much more difficult than reducing other pollutants through
current technology. Promoting the efficiency of energy use and develo** clean energy are …

This paper is drawn from the use of data envelopment analysis (DEA) in hel** a
Portuguese bank to manage the performance of its branches. The bank wanted to set targets …

Evaluation of the energy and emissions efficiency of Chinese regions has recently attracted
increasing interest. A number of previous studies have contributed to the measurement of …

This chapter deals with the measurement of efficiency through the nonparametric,
mathematical programming-based technique that is best known as data envelopment …

In this paper, we propose a general approach to find the closest targets for a given unit
according to a previously specified criterion of similarity. The idea behind this approach is …

Managers often use financial metrics based on internal accounting data to gauge firm
performance. In this paper, we analyze firm value and related levers of operational supply …

A decade ago the Range Adjusted Measure (RAM) was introduced for use with Additive
Models. The empirical experience gained since then recommends develo** a new …