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Super-Efficiency in Data Envelopment Analysis

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Data Envelopment Analysis

Part of the book series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science ((ISOR,volume 221))

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In an effort to discriminate the performance of efficient decision making units (DMUs), the concept of super-efficiency is proposed, whose basic idea is to eliminate the DMU under evaluation from the reference set. When applied to the variable returns to scale (VRS) situation, the resulting super-efficiency model may become infeasible for certain DMUs due to the convexity constraint. Infeasibility restricts a wider use of super-efficiency DEA. Therefore, taking different viewpoints, a significant amount of studies tackle this problem by developing various new VRS super-efficiency models.

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Acknowledgements

This research is partially funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions, China. Dr. Juan Du thanks the support by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 71471133).

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  1. International Center for Auditing and Evaluation, Nanjing Audit University, 211815, Nanjing, P.R. China

    Yao Chen

  2. Manning School of Business, University of Massachusetts at Lowell, 01845, Lowell, MA, USA

    Yao Chen

  3. School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, 200092, Shanghai, 1239 Siping Road, P.R. China

    Juan Du

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    Joe Zhu

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Chen, Y., Du, J. (2015). Super-Efficiency in Data Envelopment Analysis. In: Zhu, J. (eds) Data Envelopment Analysis. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 221. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7553-9_14

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