scholarly journals Estimating a Technical Inefficiency Effects Model for Thai Manufacturing and Exporting Enterprises (SMEs): A Stochastic Frontier (SFA) and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) Approach

10.28945/2033 ◽  
2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Schauer ◽  
Lisa-Maria Putz
Keyword(s):  
Data Envelopment Analysis ◽  
Stochastic Frontier ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Technical Inefficiency ◽  
Dea Approach

scholarly journals The Efficiency Performance of Global Islamic Banks

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Norlina Kadri ◽  
Rossazana Abdul Rahim ◽  
Dyg Siti Zahrah Abg. Abdillah
Keyword(s):  
Data Envelopment Analysis ◽  
Technical Efficiency ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
Scale Efficiency ◽  
Islamic Banking ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Islamic Banks ◽  
Technical Inefficiency ◽  
Efficiency Performance ◽  
Dea Approach

This paper examines the efficiency performance of the Islamic banks that consist of 14 countries namely Bahrain, Bangladesh, Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Malaysia, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi, Tunisia, Turkey, UAE, and Yemen during the period of 2004-2011 with 44 Islamic banks involved. The efficiency estimates of individual banks are evaluated using the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach. The empirical findings suggest that during the period of study, pure technical efficiency outweighs scale efficiency in the global Islamic banking sector implying that the Islamic banks have been managerially efficient in exploiting their resources to the fullest extent. The empirical findings seem to suggest that the global Islamic banks have exhibited high pure technical efficiency. During the period of study it is found that pure technical efficiency has greater influence in determining the total technical inefficiency of the Global Islamic banking sectors.

Decision to bid or not to bid: a data envelopment analysis approach

2010 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad S. El-Mashaleh
Keyword(s):  
Linear Programming ◽  
Data Envelopment Analysis ◽  
Analysis Approach ◽  
Programming Approach ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Parametric Linear Programming ◽  
Linear Programming Approach ◽  
Selection Decisions ◽  
Dea Approach ◽  
Benchmarking Performance

One of the most crucial decisions that is regularly exercised by construction contractors is to determine whether to bid or not to bid on a certain project. The purpose of this paper is to propose a data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach for the bid–no-bid decision. DEA is a robust non-parametric linear programming approach that is used for benchmarking performance and for making selection decisions. Based on a contractor's database of previous considerations of bidding opportunities, DEA creates a “favorable frontier” that consists of favorable bidding opportunities. New bidding opportunities are evaluated in reference to this “favorable frontier” and the bid–no-bid decision is consequently made. The proposed approach incorporates subjective management expertise and deals systematically with bidding situations to guide contractors in their bid–no-bid determination. A major strength of the proposed DEA approach is that it is deployable by organizations facing the bid–no-bid problem regardless of size, country of operation, number and type of factors considered in bidding, or even industry.

scholarly journals Labour efficiency in construction industry in Europe based on frontier methods: data envelopment analysis and stochastic frontier analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 787-795 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanicjusz NAZARKO ◽  
Ewa CHODAKOWSKA
Keyword(s):  
Data Envelopment Analysis ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Technical Efficiency ◽  
Stochastic Frontier Analysis ◽  
Stochastic Frontier ◽  
Efficiency Analysis ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Personnel Cost ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Frontier Analysis

The primary problems pertaining to productivity or – more precisely – efficiency are: how to define it and how to measure it. This article studies technical efficiency in Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) – the input-oriented frontier model – in the construction industry and compares it with Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) results. The models ex­plored in this paper were constructed on the basis of two outputs and personnel cost as an input. The research sample consisted of European countries. The aim was to determine whether there are substantial differences in estimation of ef­ficiency derived from those two alternative frontier approaches. The comparison of results according to the models may translate into higher reliability of the undertaken labour efficiency analysis in construction and its conclusions. Although the results are not characterized by high compatibility, the conducted analysis indicated the most attractive countries taking into account labour cost to profit and turnover ratios of enterprises. One of the determinants which should not be ignored when analysing the labour efficiency is the level of development of a country; however, it is not the sole factor affecting the efficiency of the sector.

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