The German potable water supply industry is regarded as being highly fragmented, thus inhibiting high potentials for efficiency improvements through consolidation. Focusing on a hypothetical restructuring of the industry, we apply Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to analyze the potential...

Mit mehr als 6.000 Unternehmen kann die Trinkwasserversorgung Deutschlands im internationalen Vergleich als höchst fragmentiert angesehen werden. Während die Trinkwasserversorgung in zahlreichen Ländern durch eine ähnliche Fragmentierung gekennzeichnet ist, gibt es aber auch Beispiele...

The German potable water supply industry is regarded highly fragmented, thus preventing efficiency improvements that could happen through consolidation. Focusing on a hypothetical restructuring of the industry, we use a cross-section sample of 364 German water utilities in 2006, applying Data...

The German potable water supply industry is regarded as being highly fragmented, thus inhibiting high potentials for efficiency improvements through consolidation. Focusing on a hypothetical restructuring of the industry, we apply Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to analyze the potential...