Performance Measurement ‎T‎echniques In the Presence of Undesirable Products

Subject Areas : International Journal of Industrial Mathematics

S. Masrouri ¹ , AR. Amirteimoori ^{2 *} , S. Kordrostami ³

1 - Department of Mathematics, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran.
2 - Department of Mathematics, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran.
3 - Department of Mathematics, Lahijan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Lahijan, Iran.

Received: 2017-07-08 Accepted : 2017-10-22 Published : 2020-01-01

Keywords: Production processes, ‎Efficiency, Activity analysis, Undesirable outputs, Data Envelopment Analysis,

Abstract :

Performance measurement with undesirable outputs is an important subject in production processes. There are papers in which works can be divided into two groups. First group develops production models which undesirable outputs are considered as inputs and in second one undesirable outputs are modeled as outputs. We provide a comparison between these two groups and we axiomatically show that production technology with weak disposability assumption is complete and correct technology.

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