DEA-based competition strategy in the presence of undesirable products: An application to paper mills

• Authors: AMIRTEIMOORI Alireza , MASROURI Simin
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In real applications of data envelopment analysis (DEA), there are cases in which undesirable outputs are produced along with desirable outputs in such a way that the total sum of the produced undesirable outputs over the production units must be fixed and constant. In this case, a trade-off between the decision-making units (DMUs) is needed to balance the production of undesirable outputs. In a rational sight, this trade-off is done in such a way that all DMUs improve their relative performances. In this paper, a single DEA-based model is proposed to model fixed and variable-sum undesirable outputs in production processes. A common equilibrium efficient frontier is constructed and after reallocating the input/output factors, all decision-making units (DMUs) prevail as efficient. A real case of 32 paper mills in China is given. The results of the analysis demonstrated that some economically developed paper mills have better performance than less developed paper mills; in particular, all efficient paper mills are the developed ones

Keywords

EN

data envelopment analysis; equilibrium efficient frontier; undesirable outputs; efficiency

• Publisher: Politechnika Wrocławska. Oficyna Wydawnicza Politechniki Wrocławskiej
• Journal: Operations Research and Decisions
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 31
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 5-21

Contributors

author

AMIRTEIMOORI Alireza

• Department of Applied Mathematics, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran

author

MASROURI Simin

• Department of Mathematics, Lahijan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Lahijan, Iran

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Identifiers

DOI

10.37190/ord210201