This paper relates the classical Charnes, Cooper and Rhodes' (CCR) model in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to the Weak Axiom of Profit Maximization (WAPM) in Firm Theory. Varian's (1990) firm theory analysis is extended from a single firm to multiple firms. This allows deriving the classical...

Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) has been used in the practice of Operations Research/ Management Science (OR/MS) since the early 70s. In the 90s it emerged as a viable academic discipline. Unfortunately, its proponents have articulated a dichotomy or mutual exclusivity between their approach and...

This paper presents a scheme for classifying the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) literature. The taxonomy allows one to distinguish articles on the basis of the data source used (D) if any, the type of envelopment (E) invoked, the approach to analysis (A) used, and the nature (N) of the paper....

Seiford provided a comprehensive bibliography of the data envelopment analysis literature up to and including 1995. Since then the literature published in refereed journals has grown by 150%. This paper updates and in a sense upgrades the said bibliography based on an exhaustive search of...

Content analysis was performed on the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) literature appearing in refereed journals. The extant DEA literature, reported in Gattoufi et al.1 was subdivided in two ways. The first considers all articles appearing during the life-cycle of 22 selected major DEA...