Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to develop an inverse network data envelopment analysis (INDEA) model to solve resource allocation problems. Design/methodology/approach: The authors estimate inputs’ variations based on outputs so that the efficiencies of decision-making unit under...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to propose a novel super-efficiency DEA model to appraise the relative efficiency of DMUs with zero data and stochastic data. Our model can work with both variable returns to scale (VRS) and constant returns to scale (CRS). Design/methodology/approach: This...

Purpose: The objective of this paper is to propose a new data envelopment analysis (DEA) model for assessing sustainability of suppliers with partial impacts between inputs, desirable outputs and undesirable outputs. Design/methodology/approach: This paper examines partial impacts of inputs on...

Purpose: The objective of this research is to put forward a novel closed-loop circular economy (CE) approach to forecast the sustainability of supply chains (SCs). We provide a practical and real-world CE framework to improve and fill the current knowledge gap in...

Purpose: To manage cash flow in supply chains, the purpose of this paper is to propose inverse data envelopment analysis (DEA) model. Design/methodology/approach: This paper develops an inverse range directional measure (RDM) model to deal with positive and negative values. The proposed model...

Purpose: This paper discusses how learning-by-doing (LBD) criterion can be used to evaluate the sustainability of supply chains. This paper assesses the impacts of teamwork on the LBD criterion. Besides, the effect of the internship of new labors on the LBD criterion is discussed....

Purpose: Despite unanimity in the literature that eco-innovation (EI) leads to sustainable development, evidence remains limited on measuring EI efficiency with the Malmquist productivity index (MPI). In conventional data envelopment analysis (DEA) models, decision-making units (DMUs) are...

The operational performance of airline includes production and consumption technologies for transporting passengers and cargoes. By determining the performance of airlines' operations one can get further insights from the obtained results and can develop appropriate policy for improving the...