A review of inverse data envelopment analysis: origins, development and future directions

A Emrouznejad, GR Amin, M Ghiyasi… - IMA journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a widely used mathematical programming approach for
assessing the efficiency of decision-making units (DMUs) in various sectors. Inverse DEA is …

Resource reallocation for improving sustainable supply chain performance: an inverse data envelopment analysis

Z Moghaddas, BM Tosarkani, S Yousefi - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
In recent years, globalization has highlighted the vital role of sustainable supply chains
(SSCs) in the development of organizations and production systems to increase profits. The …

Scale elasticity and technical efficiency analysis in the European forest sector: a stochastic value-based approach

A Amirteimoori, T Allahviranloo… - European Journal of Forest …, 2023 - Springer
This paper is the first to examine both technical efficiency and scale elasticity of the forest
sector across different European (EU) regions in an uncertain environment. In doing so, a …

Minimizing greenhouse gas emissions using inverse DEA with an application in oil and gas

M Wegener, GR Amin - Expert Systems with Applications, 2019 - Elsevier
The industry dynamic creates a difficult problem that must be solved if we are to address
climate change. How can we lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions while simultaneously …

A sustainable lean production framework based on inverse DEA for mitigating gas flaring

KK Orisaremi, FTS Chan, SH Chung, X Fu - Expert Systems with …, 2022 - Elsevier
The gas flaring process remains a significant contributor to climate change due to the
release of greenhouse gases. Additionally, it denies oil-producing nations access to …

A generalized inverse DEA model for firm restructuring based on value efficiency

J Gerami, MR Mozaffari, PF Wanke… - IMA journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We present a novel general inverse data envelopment analysis model for assessing the
restructuring of decision-making units (DMUs) while observing predetermined value …

A new inverse DEA cost efficiency model for estimating potential merger gains: a case of Canadian banks

GR Amin, M Ibn Boamah - Annals of Operations Research, 2020 - Springer
Estimating potential gains from mergers is an important strategic decision-making problem.
This paper introduces a new inverse data envelopment analysis (DEA) based on a cost …

Transnational resource generativity: Efficiency analysis and target setting of water, energy, land, and food nexus for OECD countries

MD Ibrahim, DC Ferreira, S Daneshvar… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Depletion of natural resources needs quantification and efficiency analysis of the use of
resources to improve sustainability. This paper evaluates the efficiency of Organization for …

A general inverse DEA model for non-radial DEA

GJ Zhang, JC Cui - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
Traditional inverse DEA models could be called inverse radial DEA because they are based
on radial efficiency measures. Due to the neglect of slacks in evaluating the efficiency score …

A new inverse DEA model with frontier changes for analyzing the achievement path of CO2 emissions target of China in 2030

J Lu, M Li, Z Shen - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022 - Elsevier
China has promised to reduce its CO 2 emissions per gross domestic product (GDP) by 60–
65% relative to 2005 emissions by 2030, which puts higher requirements for the quality of …