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Capturing the environment, a metafrontier approach to the drinking water sector. CES Discussion Paper Series DPS 08.04
- Source :
- International Transactions in Operational Research. 16(2):257-271
- Publication Year :
- 2009
- Publisher :
- Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
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Abstract
- Environmental factors add complexity to the comparison between specific activities or entire entities. Decision making units with an inferior performance are tempted to invoke that their organization is ``different'' from the others in the data set. By reinterpreting and extending the metafrontier literature, we propose an all-embracing concept to fully capture the operational environment. We suggest the ``Group Specific Technical Efficiency'' as a new measure to assess the overall efficiency of a utility while allowing for environmental differences. A real-world example of drinking water utilities from five different countriesillustrates the concept.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14753995 and 09696016
- Volume :
- 16
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International Transactions in Operational Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.od........83..916d4d32b4eb07bf55344b4092170566