Largest size-efficient scale and size efficiencies of decision-making units in data envelopment analysis
数据包络分析中的最大规模有效尺度与决策单元大小效率
This paper extends the usual DEA analysis, which evaluates input savings that could have been effected by a decision-making unit, given its observed task, to inquire into whether even greater savings would be possible if the task were to be optimally apportioned to a number of smaller units. The notion of size efficiency is introduced to measure this potential for further input reductions, and then compared and contrasted to the extant notion of scale efficiency. The…