After 40 years of research with thousands of application-oriented scientific papers, empirical evidence that data envelopment analysis (DEA) has really improved the practice of performance measurement and benchmarking in real-life non-production contexts is rare. The main reason for this deficit...

Joint production is a term with a long history in economics, encompassing a variety of ubiquitous production types that usually generate both main products as well as desirable and undesirable byproducts. However, studies in economic history show that important phenomena subsumed under this term...

After 40 years of research with thousands of application-oriented scientific papers, empirical evidence that data envelopment analysis (DEA) has really improved the practice of performance measurement and benchmarking in real-life non-production contexts is rare. The main reason for this deficit...

Stochastic Non-smooth Envelopment of Data (StoNED) is a semi-parametric and stochastic method of efficiency measurement that combines some of the virtues of the classical counterparts, namely Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) versus Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Recently, it has been...

Multi-criteria production theory (MCPT) is a generalization of traditional production theories which has been developed in order to integrate concerns of modern management science and economics, in particular sustainability and environmental protection. Such as traditional production theory lays...

A recent article of Dakpo, Jeanneaux and Latruffe critically reviews the developments, limits and future prospects of integrating environmental aspects into productive efficiency evaluation with Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). In particular, it is concluded that multiple frontier technologies...

Decision-based production theory is a generalization of traditional production theories developed in order to integrate concerns of modern management science and economics, such as sustainability and environmental protection. The main idea is the distinction of technologically determined inputs...