Eco-efficiency analysis of French firms: a data envelopment analysis approach

被引：32
作者：
Lahouel B.B. [1 ,2 ]
机构：
[1] Université de Cergy-Pontoise, Cergy-Pontoise
[2] ESSEC Chair of Change, ESSEC Business School, Cergy-Pontoise
来源：
Environmental Economics and Policy Studies | 2016年 / 18卷 / 3期
关键词：
Data envelopment analysis; Eco-efficiency; Efficiency scores; Environmental management; Sustainability;
D O I：
10.1007/s10018-015-0115-4
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摘要：
This paper addresses the issue of assessing eco-efficiency when good and undesirable outputs are jointly produced. We propose that eco-efficiency can be decomposed into two parts: resource efficiency and ecological efficiency. We provide a conceptual framework based on data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach to measure and benchmark eco-efficiency. The study is conducted between 2011 and 2012 using real data from 17 French firms belonging to the services to consumers industry, by developing DEA-based models. The results indicate that only three firms in the sample of the study are relatively eco-efficient. We find that eco-efficiency is closely related to environmental efficiency. The results also show that company size, expressed in terms of turnover and number of employees, is inversely related to eco-efficiency scores. © 2015, Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies and Springer Japan.
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页码：395 / 416
页数：21
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