A data envelopment approach to measuring efficiency: Case analysis of highway maintenance patrols

Cook, Wade D.; Kazakov, Alex; Roll, Yaakov; Seiford, Lawrence M.

doi:10.1016/1053-5357(91)90019-p

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“…Recall from earlier that one of the main advantages of DEA is its ability to uncover relationships that remains hidden when other techniques are used (Cook et al, 1991). This result suggests that for the sample used and period under investigation, companies owned and operated by PLCs are operate more efficient than companies owned and operated by private firms.…”

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confidence: 92%

“…For instance Hulten (1990), Sigel (1987, 1990) (2005), and the ONS calculate capital stock using the PIM technique. 6 An evolving stream of literature suggests that capital services, which is a flow variable, better reflect the input of capital into production, and thus are more suitable for analysing efficiency than the wealth estimates of capital stock (ONS, 2006). 7 An attempt to use capital services in this study was made.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…An advantage of using DEA is that the technique does not require an explicit a priori determination of a production function, and efficiency is measured relative to the highest observed performance rather than against some average (Cook et al, 1991, Ruggiero, 2007. DEA is capable of being used with any input-output measurement, and the source of efficiency can be analysed and quantified for every evaluated unit.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…DEA is capable of being used with any input-output measurement, and the source of efficiency can be analysed and quantified for every evaluated unit. Moreover, the technique is useful in uncovering relationships that remain hidden when other methods are used (Cook et al, 1991, Ruggiero, 2007. One drawback of DEA, is that the technique attributes all deviations from the frontier to inefficiency.…”

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confidence: 99%

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This paper uses a sample of 55 companies involved in UK public to private buyouts (P-T-P) and DEA to investigate efficiency in the UK manufacturing industry during the period 1997-2007. For the sample used and period investigated, no evidence is found that companies involved in public to private buyout ownership changes operate more efficiently than a control sample of PLCs not involved in buyouts. The results suggest that the policy rhetoric that buyouts promote efficiency in public companies in the UK is not supported.

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Denise²

2015

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“…One alternative to these 'performance' indicators that does suggest itself is the application of the economic notion of a production function and an efficiency frontier to performance assessment (Ganley & Cubbin 1992;Deller 1992;Cook et al 1991;De Borger & Kerstens 1994). More particularly, an approach known as data envelopment analysis (DEA) may serve to offer useful insights into the manner in which management is translating the various resources at its disposal into outputs-that is, measures of 'productive performance'.…”

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Performance Indicators and Efficiency Measurement in Public Libraries

Worthington

1999

Australian Economic Review

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A sample of one hundred and sixty-eight New South Wales local government libraries is used to analyse the efficiency measures derived from the non-parametric technique of data envelopment analysis. Depending upon the assumptions employed, 9.5 per cent of local governments were judged to be overall technically efficient in the provision of library services, 47.6 per cent as pure technically efficient, and 10.1 per cent as scale efficient. The study also analyses the posited linkages between comparative performance indicators, productive performance and non-discretionary environmental factors under these different model formulations. The results indicate that the presence of exogenous factors and scale effects account for a major portion of the differences in observed efficiency between different groups of local governments.

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Measuring Efficiency of Highway Maintenance Patrols

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A data envelopment approach to measuring efficiency: Case analysis of highway maintenance patrols

Cited by 32 publications

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Do Public to Private Buyouts Improve Target's Efficiency?

Do Public to Private Buyouts Improve Target's Efficiency?

Performance Indicators and Efficiency Measurement in Public Libraries

Measuring Efficiency of Highway Maintenance Patrols

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