In recent years there has been an exponential growth in the number of publications related
to theory and applications of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Charnes, Cooper, and …

Incentive plans involve payments for performance relative to some set of goals. In this paper,
we extend Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to the evaluation of performance in the specific …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an outline of the major contributions in the
literature on the determination of the least distance in data envelopment analysis (DEA). The …

Abstract Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is extended to the evaluation of performance of
organizations within the framework of the implementation of plans for improvements that set …

In order to take into consideration the presence of technological heterogeneity in the
aviation industry, numerous studies over the past ten years have embraced the data …

Long-term sustainability in airline transportation entails mitigating the detrimental impact of
CO 2 emissions on the environment. However, it is also necessary that it does not affect the …

In this paper we use data from OECD countries participating in PISA 2012 to assess the
efficiency of schools in a cross-country framework. In the analysis, and in contrast to …

Many studies devoted to efficiency performance evaluation in the education sector are
based on measures of central tendency at school level as, for example, the average values …

This paper introduces the Best-Worst PROMETHEE method, which avoids the rank reversal
problem of other PROMETHEE methods. We use this new technique to rank schools in the …

The models that set the closest targets have made an important contribution to DEA as tool
for the best-practice benchmarking of decision making units (DMUs). These models may …