This study compares data envelopment analysis-discriminant analysis (DEA-DA) with Altman's financial ratio analysis to identify the position of DEA-DA in financial performance analysis. Then, this study applies DEA-DA to examine whether Research and Development (R&D) expenditure influences the...

This study investigates whether a series of recent economic reforms on corporate governance influence the operational performance of Japanese manufacturing industries after the bubble economy. This study finds that stable shareholding is an important aspect of traditional Japanese corporate...

This study describes a practical use of Data Envelopment Analysis-Discriminant Analysis (DEA-DA) for bankruptcy-based performance assessment. DEA-DA is useful for classifying non-default and default firms based upon their financial performance. However, when we apply DEA-DA to a data set on...

This study compares DEA (data envelopment analysis) with DEA-DA (discriminant analysis) in terms of bankruptcy assessment. Recently, many DEA researchers propose a use of DEA as a quick-and-easy tool to assess corporate bankruptcy. Meanwhile, other DEA researchers discuss a use of DEA-DA for...

Environmental assessment recently becomes a very large-scale policy issue among corporate leaders, environmental researchers and individuals who are interested in environmental protection in the world. This study discusses how to apply Data Environment Analysis (DEA) for environmental...

This study investigates a linkage among environmental, operational and financial performance in Japanese manufacturing industry. All manufacturing firms examined in this study are listed in Tokyo stock exchange market. We use DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) as an evaluation methodology. This...

Environmental assessment is increasingly important in preventing various types of pollutions. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has been long used as an operational performance measure, but we have insufficiently explored the use of DEA for environmental assessment. This study explores a new use...

Environmental assessment recently becomes a major policy issue in the world. This study discusses how to apply Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) for environmental assessment. An important feature of the DEA environmental assessment is that it needs to classify outputs into desirable (good) and...