Purpose – The paper aims to propose a modified multi-activity data envelopment analysis (MDEA) to provide information on the efficiency performance of farmers' cooperatives with inputs shared among several closely-related activities. Design/methodology/approach – The directional distance...

An agricultural sector model based on the principle of economic welfare maximization was modified to derive the supply schedules for carbon sequestered by afforestation in Taiwan. Competition for land between agricultural and forest enterprises provided the basis for simultaneous price...

In this study, we introduced the concept of the integrated healthcare system into budget allocation decisions and analysed the potential improvement in healthcare performance by reallocating the budget among the preventive care, medical care and long-term care services. We have applied an...