Newly-developed data envelopment analysis techniques permit simultaneous consideration of ‘good and bad’ outputs in evaluating efficiency. We use these techniques to determine joint ecological and technical efficiencies of the 437 largest fossil-fueled electricity-generating plants in the...

In a recent paper on measuring efficiency of hospitals by Al‐Shammari a set of 15 hospitals were compared across three years with respect to multiple inputs and outputs. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) was utilized in the evaluation process. The results of this study provide some very useful...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce a methodology to identify sustainable supply chain key performance indicators (KPI) that can then be used for sustainability performance evaluation for suppliers. Design/methodology/approach – Initially the complexity of sustainable supply...