Hugely relevant in today's world of healthcare performance management, this comprehensive work applies the analytical framework of Data Envelopment Analysis methodology to provide health care administrators with specific tools for performance evaluation. Most important, the book provides health...

Einführung -- Zunehmender Effizienzdruck im Marketing - Doing more with less -- Konzeptionelle und theoretische Grundlagen der Effizienzanalyse -- Begrifflich-konzeptionelle Grundlagen der Effizienzanalyse -- Allgemeine theoretische Fundierung der Effizienzanalyse -- Konzeptualisierung der...

Section I: Methods -- Chapter 1 Evaluation of Performance in Health Care -- Chapter 2 Performance Measurement Using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) -- Chapter 3 Returns To Scale Models -- Chapter 4 Weight Restricted (Multiplier) Models -- Chapter 5 Non-Oriented and Measure Specific Models --...

This book provides a coherent description of the main concepts and statistical methods used to analyse economic performance. The focus is on measures of performance that are of practical relevance to policy makers. Most, if not all, of these measures can be viewed as measures of productivity...

This volume addresses advanced DEA methodology and techniques developed for modeling unique new performance evaluation issues. Many numerical examples, real management cases and verbal descriptions make it very valuable for researchers and practitioners.

Berücksichtigung der Unsicherheit in zu beurteilenden Dienstleistungsproduktionen -- Kennzeichnung von Dienstleistungsproduktionen als stochastische Entscheidungsprobleme -- Verfahren zur Leistungsmessung von Entscheidungseinheiten -- Entwicklung einer Methodik zur Leistungsmessung...

Chapter 1. Estimating Efficiency in the Presence of Extreme Outliers: A Logistic-Half Normal Stochastic Frontier Model with Application to Highway Maintenance Costs in England -- Chapter 2. Alternative User Costs, Productivity and Inequality in US Business Sectors -- Chapter 3. On the Allocation...

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...