introduction: efficiency evaluation of universities and faculties is one of the tools that help managers to identify the departments’ strengths and weakness. the main objective of the present research was to measure and compare the technical efficiency of shiraz school of medicine departments using data envelopment analysis (dea) technique. methods: this cross-sectional and retrospective study ...

In today's competitive world, many manufacturing and service firms, including banks, have been forced to use new managerial approaches, and methods for assessing organizational performance. The Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach is one of these approaches, which has been used to evaluate the performance of organizations since 1978. The purpose of this research is to use the technology sup...

the performance of a decision making unit (dmu) can be evaluated in either across-sectional or a time-series manner, and data envelopment analysis (dea) is a useful method for both types of evaluation. the malmquist productivity index (mpi) evaluates the change in efficiency of a dmu between two time periods. it is defined as the product of the catch-up and frontier-shift terms. in this paper, ...

Background and objectives: Managers will be able to allocate resources optimally using performance evaluation data, specifically, efficiency evaluation of organizations. An efficiency evaluation of hospitals can be provided by determining the optimal scales for each hospital, to which optimal allocation of resources will be possible. Therefore, the present study aimed to evalua...

In the performance evaluation process, using the classic data envelopment analysis (DEA) models, decision making units (DMUs) are considered as black boxes. While in many cases and different applications such as investment funds, banks, insurance companies, etc., DMUs have a network structure. In addition, in many network structures, some of the indicators used to calculate the efficiency...

One of the most important applications of data envelopment analysis tech-nique is measuring the efficiency of bank branches. Performance measure-ment in the banking industry is important for several groups, including bank managers, customers, investors, and shareholders. The purpose of this study is to examine and design a mixed structure to measure the efficiency of branches of Iranian banks a...

evaluation of any irrigation system consists of analyzing the measurable performance of the system in real conditions as well as during the normal operation of the farm. irrigation evaluation is a management tool that allows the system manager to make the best use of what is available. unfortunately, in most regions of iran, after the implementation of irrigation systems their performance is no...

Cooperative banks play an important role in the European banking system. This paper presents an evaluation of the efficiency and performance of a European cooperative banks. For this purpose an integrated approach is employed using both data envelopment analysis as well as a multicriteria evaluation methodology. Through data envelopment analysis the efficiency of the banks is evaluated under bo...