Measuring the efficiency of decision making units |
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Authors: | A Charnes WW Cooper E Rhodes |
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Institution: | The University of Texas, Austin TX, U.S.A.;Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, U.S.A.;State University of New York at Buffalo, Albany NY, U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | A nonlinear (nonconvex) programming model provides a new definition of efficiency for use in evaluating activities of not-for-profit entities participating in public programs. A scalar measure of the efficiency of each participating unit is thereby provided, along with methods for objectively determining weights by reference to the observational data for the multiple outputs and multiple inputs that characterize such programs. Equivalences are established to ordinary linear programming models for effecting computations. The duals to these linear programming models provide a new way for estimating extremal relations from observational data. Connections between engineering and economic approaches to efficiency are delineated along with new interpretations and ways of using them in evaluating and controlling managerial behavior in public programs. |
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