Allocating fixed costs and resources via data envelopment analysis

被引:252
作者
Beasley, JE [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ London Imperial Coll Sci Technol & Med, Sch Management, London SW7 2AZ, England
关键词
data envelopment analysis; efficiency; cross-efficiencies; fixed cost allocation; resource allocation; target setting;
D O I
10.1016/S0377-2217(02)00244-8
中图分类号
C93 [管理学];
学科分类号
12 ; 1201 ; 1202 ; 120202 ;
摘要
In this paper we show that data envelopment analysis (DEA) can be viewed as maximising the average efficiency of the decision-making units (DMUs) in an organisation. Building upon this we present DEA based models for: (a) allocating fixed costs to DMUs and (b) allocating input resources to DMUs. Simultaneous to allocating input resources output targets are also decided for each DMU. Numeric results are presented for a number of example problems taken from the literature. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码:198 / 216
页数:19
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