A recent article of Dakpo, Jeanneaux and Latruffe critically reviews the developments, limits and future prospects of integrating environmental aspects into productive efficiency evaluation with Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). In particular, it is concluded that multiple frontier technologies...

The thirteen essays of this book deal with aspects of production management, which have shown a growing importance in research, teaching and practice within the last few years. The contents range from theoretical issues to case studies. Significant relations among different essays (chapters)...

Cone ratios, assurance regions and similar data envelopment analysis (DEA) approaches measuring the efficiency of decision making units (DMU) restrict their ability to “show themselves in the most favorable light”. Indeed they limit the relations or the multipliers of inputs and outputs as...