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 …

The rapid growth of the economy in China has caused many problems for the country,
particularly the energy shortage and environmental pollution. Thus, establishing a …

In many real managerial applications, an issue of considerable importance is allocating a
total fixed cost across a set of competing decision making units (DMUs). The fixed cost …

This paper proposes new fixed cost allocation approaches for allocating a fixed cost among
decision-making units (DMUs) with two-stage structures under the framework of data …

The Chinese government announced to cut its carbon emissions intensity by 60%–65% from
its 2005 level. To realize the national abatement commitment, a rational allocation into its …

A prominent issue in many organizations involves the fair allocation of a total fixed cost
among a group of entities. This paper extends the traditional fixed cost allocation problem to …

In practice, the concept of incentives is extensively applied in the allocation process for
guiding the behaviours of an organization's units to satisfy the goals of the organization …

Fixed cost allocation (FCA) is a problem that decision-makers usually encounter in practice.
The existing FCA studies based on data envelopment analysis (DEA) have not recognized …

Fixed cost allocation among groups of entities is a prominent issue in numerous
organisations. Addressing this issue has become one of the most important topics of the …

Equilibrium efficient frontier DEA (EEFDEA) approaches have been developed specifically
for the efficiency assessment of decision-making units (DMUs) with fixed-sum outputs in …