On the methodological framework of composite indices: A review of the issues of weighting, aggregation, and robustness

S Greco, A Ishizaka, M Tasiou, G Torrisi - Social indicators research, 2019 - Springer
In recent times, composite indicators have gained astounding popularity in a wide variety of
research areas. Their adoption by global institutions has further captured the attention of the …

[HTML][HTML] A survey and analysis of the first 40 years of scholarly literature in DEA: 1978–2016

A Emrouznejad, G Yang - Socio-economic planning sciences, 2018 - Elsevier
In recent years there has been an exponential growth in the number of publications related
to theory and applications of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Charnes, Cooper, and …

Methods and applications of DEA cross-efficiency: Review and future perspectives

J Wu, J Sun, L Liang - Frontiers of Engineering Management, 2021 - Springer
The field of engineering management usually involves evaluation issues, such as program
selection, team performance evaluation, technology selection, and supplier evaluation. The …

Energy and environmental efficiency of OECD countries in the context of the circular economy: Common weight analysis for malmquist productivity index

NK Mavi, RK Mavi - Journal of environmental management, 2019 - Elsevier
Circular economy (CE) aims at sustainable development (SD) by focusing more on
renewable sources of energy and precise management of waste to i) guarantee the secure …

DEA cross-efficiency evaluation considering undesirable output and ranking priority: A case study of eco-efficiency analysis of coal-fired power plants

X Liu, J Chu, P Yin, J Sun - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2017 - Elsevier
Data envelopment analysis cross-efficiency evaluation has been widely accepted as a
useful tool for performance evaluation and ranking of decision making units. However, the …

Performance evaluation of Chinese port enterprises under significant environmental concerns: An extended DEA-based analysis

J Sun, Y Yuan, R Yang, X Ji, J Wu - Transport Policy, 2017 - Elsevier
The rapid development of China's port industry has caused numerous problems, among
which the most significant is environmental pollution. A major goal for government and port …

Extended secondary goal models for weights selection in DEA cross-efficiency evaluation

J Wu, J Chu, J Sun, Q Zhu, L Liang - Computers & industrial engineering, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has been extended to cross-efficiency
evaluation for ranking decision making units (DMUs) and eliminating unrealistic weighting …

Combining common-weights DEA window with the Malmquist index: A case of China's iron and steel industry

NH Kim, F He, OC Kwon - Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
In the conventional data envelopment analysis (DEA) window analysis, a decision-making
unit (DMU) in each window is treated as different units in each period so that the evaluation …

Theoretical and Empirical Advances in the Assessment of Productive Efficiency since the introduction of DEA: A Bibliometric Analysis

TCC Nepomuceno, APCS Costa… - International Journal of …, 2023 - inderscienceonline.com
The field of productivity and efficiency analysis is growing exponentially, both in terms of
new methods and approaches proposed to assess the efficiency of productive decision …

A mixed ideal and anti-ideal DEA model: an application to evaluate cloud service providers

M Azadi, M Izadikhah, F Ramezani… - IMA Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The rapid development of cloud computing and the sharp increase in the number of cloud
service providers (CSPs) have resulted in many challenges in the suitability and selection of …