Design of New Efficiency and Productivity Indexes with Applications
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2021) | Viewed by 4310
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The literature on sustainability assessment has increased quite strongly over the last few years. However, there are relatively few publications that have used data envelopment analysis (DEA). A review of articles that associate DEA and sustainable development can be in found in Emrouznejad and Yang (2017) or Zhou et al. (2018).
This Special Issue seeks research papers on various aspects of efficiency and productivity analysis within the field of data envelopment analysis (DEA). We particularly encourage the submission of interdisciplinary works and multicountry collaborative research preferably related to sustainability. We welcome original research papers using different non-parametric techniques, as well as systematic reviews of efficiency and productivity analysis applications.
Suitable topics include but are not limited to the design of new DEA models based on the physical principle of minimum action; the design of new measures of economic efficiency, incorporating market prices; the study of productivity indexes that will allow comparing multiplicative Malmquist indexes with additive Luenberger indicators; the improvement of environmental DEA models considering the existence of undesirable outputs; the introduction of new DEA models for working with bounded variables; the analysis and improvement of computational aspects of DEA; the application of bi-level programming to different open DEA problems; the decompositions of global change into input and output components; the evaluations of productivity change and its components in the case of working with pseudo-panels; and other related topics.
This Special Issue welcomes methodological as well as applied contributions. In addition to expanding the theory related to DEA, including its interaction with other production planning techniques, we are interested in implementing the new proposals in different applied areas and sectors. Among them, we consider, but are not limited to, the challenges relating to sustainability, the socioeconomic, scientific, and integrated approaches to sustainable development and other topics related to sustainability (measuring sustainability, sustainability tools, applications of sustainability, etc.). Thus, the issue will focus on the proposal of methodological developments in the areas of measuring efficiency and evaluating productivity change over time. Our main aim is to improve the level of reliability and applicability of the actual efficiency indexes.
References:
Aparicio, J.; Lovell, C.A.K.; Pastor, J.T. Advances in Efficiency and Productivity. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science. Springer International Publishing. 2016.
Emrouznejad, A.; Yang, G.L. A survey and analysis of the first 40 years of scholarly literature in DEA: 1978–2016. Socio-Econ. Plan. Sci. 2017, 61, 4–8.
Łozowicka, A. Evaluation of the Efficiency of Sustainable Development Policy Implementation in Selected EU Member States Using DEA. The Ecological Dimension. Sustainability. 2020, 12, 435.
Zhou, H.; Yang, Y.; Chen, Y.; Zhu, J. Data envelopment analysis application in sustainability: The origins, development and future directions. Eur. J. Oper. Res. 2018, 264, 1–16.
Prof. Dr. Fernando Vidal Gimenez
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- efficiency
- productivity
- data envelopment analysis
- Malmquist indexes
- Luenberger indicators
- sustainability measurement
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