“…The literature devoted to the development of the DEA model is very rich (Andersen, 1993;Banker, 1984;Chen, 2021, Chang, 2020Guo, 2020;Lee, 2011;Lin, 2020;Pendharkar, 2021;Tone, 2002;Dobrovich, 2021;Podinovski , 2021;Rostamzadeh, 2021). Also, an increasing number of papers are dedicated to the specifics of the analysis of the efficiency of commercial enterprises based on the DEA model (Ko, 2017;Baviera-Puig, 2020;Fenyves, 2020;Shuangyan, 2018;Pachar, 2021). In the relevant literature in Serbia, special attention has recently been paid to the application of the DEA model in the evaluation of the efficiency of trade companies in Serbia ( Lukic, 2019( Lukic, , 2020.…”