This book presents the methodology and applications of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in measuring productivity, efficiency and effectiveness in Financial Services firms such as banks, bank branches, stock markets, pension funds, mutual funds, insurance firms, credit unions, risk tolerance, and...

Here is an in-depth guide to the most powerful available benchmarking technique for improving service organization performance - Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The book outlines DEA as a benchmarking technique, identifies high cost service units, isolates specific changes for elevating...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Measuring the Performance of Knowledge Value-Added in University-Industry Collaborative Innovation -- Chapter 3: Efficiency Evaluation of Knowledge Flow in University-Industry Collaborative Innovation in China -- Chapter 4: Big Five Personality Traits and...

This book offers new transparent views and step-by-step methods for performance evaluation of a set of units using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The book has twelve practical chapters. Elementary concepts and definitions are gradually built in Chapters 1-6 based upon four examples of one...