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A model for efficiency-based resource integration in services
White, Sheneeta W.; Badinelli, Ralph D. - In: European Journal of Operational Research 217 (2012) 2, pp. 439-447
-integration decision for a service process through which the client and the service provider co-produce resource outputs. This workforce … planning for services produces interesting policy prescriptions due to the presence of a client-modulated efficiency function … results of this research are optimal decision rules that provide insights into the optimal levels of client involvement and …
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Approximate dynamic programming for capacity allocation in the service industry
Schütz, Hans-Jörg; Kolisch, Rainer - In: European Journal of Operational Research 218 (2012) 1, pp. 239-250
. Throughout the paper we will relate the problem to capacity allocation in radiology services. The problem is modeled as a … continuous-time Markov decision process and solved using simulation-based approximate dynamic programming (ADP) combined with a …
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Decomposing technical inefficiency using the principle of least action
Aparicio, Juan; Mahlberg, Bernhard; Pastor, Jesus T.; … - In: European Journal of Operational Research 239 (2014) 3, pp. 776-785
are of practical use to managers in their decision making. Profit efficiency is traditionally due to two sources …
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Shadow prices of social capital in rural India, a nonparametric approach
Serra, Teresa; Poli, Elena - In: European Journal of Operational Research 240 (2015) 3, pp. 892-903
This article studies the role of social capital on cotton production efficiency and productivity for a sample of small farms in Maharashtra, India using data envelopment analysis. Input shadow prices are computed as an indicator of the importance of social capital relative to other inputs....
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An analysis of managerialism and performance in English and Welsh male prisons
Rogge, Nicky; Simper, Richard; Verschelde, Marijn; … - In: European Journal of Operational Research 241 (2015) 1, pp. 224-235
This paper fills a noticeable gap in the current economic and penology literature by proposing new performance-enhancing policies based on an efficiency analysis of a sample of male prisons in England and Wales over the period 2009/10. In addition, we advance the empirical literature by...
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Management of agricultural research centers in Brazil: A DEA application using a dynamic GMM approach
da Silva e Souza, Geraldo; Gomes, Eliane Gonçalves - In: European Journal of Operational Research 240 (2015) 3, pp. 819-824
In this paper, we measure the performance for each of the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation research centers by means of a Data Envelopment Analysis model. Performance data are available for a panel covering the period 2002–2009. The approach is instrumentalist, in the sense of...
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How to properly decompose economic efficiency using technical and allocative criteria with non-homothetic DEA technologies
Aparicio, Juan; Pastor, Jesus T.; Zofio, Jose L. - In: European Journal of Operational Research 240 (2015) 3, pp. 882-891
We discuss how to properly decompose economic efficiency when the underlying technology is non-homothetic using alternative allocative and technical efficiency criteria. We first show that only under the production of one output and assuming the particular case of constant returns to scale...
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Performance evaluation of participating nations at the 2012 London Summer Olympics by a two-stage data envelopment analysis
Li, Yongjun; Lei, Xiyang; Dai, Qianzhi; Liang, Liang - In: European Journal of Operational Research 243 (2015) 3, pp. 964-973
This study measures the performance of participating nations at the Olympics, considering the quest for medals as a two-stage Olympic process. The first stage is characterized as athlete preparation (AP) and the second stage as athlete competition (AC). We extend the relational model from the...
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Testing the accuracy of DEA estimates under endogeneity through a Monte Carlo simulation
Cordero, José Manuel; Santín, Daniel; Sicilia, Gabriela - In: European Journal of Operational Research 244 (2015) 2, pp. 511-518
Endogeneity, and the distortions on the estimation of economic models that it causes, is a usual problem in the econometrics literature. Although non-parametric methods like Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) are among the most used techniques for measuring technical efficiency, the effects of such...
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Operational Research in education
Johnes, Jill - In: European Journal of Operational Research 243 (2015) 3, pp. 683-696
Operational Research (OR) techniques have been applied, from the early stages of the discipline, to a wide variety of issues in education. At the government level, these include questions of what resources should be allocated to education as a whole and how these should be divided amongst the...
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