The purpose of this paper is to briefly trace the evolution of DEA from the initial publication
by Charnes et al.(1978b) to the current state of the art (SOA). The state of development of …

Objective. This article reports on a systematic review of data‐based, peer‐reviewed scientific
assessments of performance differences between private for‐profit and private nonprofit US …

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 …

The literature of data envelopment analysis (DEA) encompasses many surveys, yet all either
emphasize methodologies or do not make a distinction between methodological and …

The second edition of this book, as in the first edition, places emphasis on the application of
contemporary performance and efficiency evaluation methods, using data envelopment …

This paper provides the first taxonomy of hospital efficiency studies that uses data
envelopment analysis (DEA) and related techniques. We provide a systematic review of 79 …

There is a growing interest in the cross-country comparisons of the performance of national
health care systems. The present work provides a comparison of the technical efficiency of …

Using a sample of Virginia hospitals, performance measures of quality were examined as
they related to technical efficiency. Efficiency scores for the study hospitals were computed …

ContextMost strategies proposed to control the rising cost of health care are aimed at
reducing medical resource consumption rates. These approaches may be limited in …

Building on the comparative capitalism literature, we aim to understand the impact of HRM
practice on hospitals performance within the healthcare sector in Jordan, and the role of …