We report on an application of data envelopment analysis to hospital capacity planning in Germany. This work was carried out as part of a ministry report prepared by a major German health care consulting company. Our input into this report is a first attempt to incorporate the relative economic...

Für die optimale Größe betrieblicher Einheiten spielen ihre Skalenerträge eine wesentlicheRolle. Anhand eines Datensatzes, der aus dem Forschungsranking 2005 desCentrums für Hochschulentwicklung abgeleitet ist, werden die Skalenerträge der Forschungbetriebswirtschaftlicher Fachbereiche...

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA): Ein brauchbarer Ansatz zur Messung der Effizienz im Marketing? So fragen Backhaus / Wilken (2003) in einem aktuellen Arbeitspapier und kommen zu dem Schluss, dass die DEA durchaus Potenzial besitzt, warnen aber vor den Grenzen der DEA und sehen besonderen...

Die Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) ist eine Modellfamilie zur Messung der relativen Effizienzvon Entscheidungseinheiten mittels Techniken der Linearen Programmierung. Entscheidungseinheiten(EE) sind produktive Einheiten im weitesten Sinne, z.B. Unternehmungen,Werke, Abteilungen oder einzelne...

Supply chain management concepts largely rely on cooperation. Therefore the economic success of companieswithin supply chain cooperations depends on the ability and capacity of these companies to build up and nourishcooperation relations. This capacity with its ‘social factor inputs’ as e.g....

Non-parametric data envelopment analysis (DEA) estimators based on linear programmingmethods have been widely applied in analyses of productive efficiency. Thedistributions of these estimators remain unknown except in the simple case of one inputand one output, and previous bootstrap methods...

The traditional approach to measuring allocative efficiency is based on input prices, which are rarely known at the firm level. This paper proposes a new approach to measure allocative efficiency which is based on the output-oriented distance to the frontier in a profit technical efficiency...

Using a panel data set of 361 German corporations for the period 1991 to 1996 we test the hypothesis that firms with more efficient governance structures have higher profitability. To determine efficiency we compare firms with respect to ownership concentration, the identity of owners, capital...

This Working Paper gives insights into the concepts of productivity and efficiency. Both conceptsare popular measures for evaluating productive units, either on macro or micro level.This paper provides clear definitions for both concepts and outlines key areas of interest inthis context, such as...