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Efficiency and Perceptions in Public CSR: An Integrated Efficiency–Perception Analysis of Spanish Defence Delegations

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Public organisations often experience a discrepancy between improvements in technical efficiency and stakeholders' perceptions of integrity and performance. This study analyses the mechanisms that may underlie this efficiency–perception discrepancy in Spanish Defence Delegations during 2020–2023.
José Solana‐Ibáñez   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Recent advances in multifunctional soft robots: A materials–structures–systems co‐design perspective for synergistic integration

open access: yesFlexMat, EarlyView.
Abstract Soft robots, engineered from highly compliant materials, offer superior adaptability and safety in unstructured environments compared to their rigid counterparts. Recent advancements, fueled by bio‐inspiration and material programmability, have led to the rapid co‐evolution of their core modules: actuation, sensing, protection, energy, and ...
Qiulei Liu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Improving Discrimination Power in Data Envelopment Analysis Using Deviation Variables [PDF]

open access: yesمدیریت صنعتی, 2017
Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has been proposed as a performance evaluative technique to measure the relative efficiency of decision-making units (DMUs) based on their respective multiple inputs and outputs.
Mohammadreza Ghasemi, Arash Nabizadeh
doaj   +1 more source

How Does AI Empower Corporate ESG Practices? Mechanisms Based on Information Processing Theory

open access: yesInternational Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the context of the latest technological revolution and industrial transformation, Artificial Intelligence (AI) provides new impetus for the development of corporate ESG practices. This study, based on data from 2630 A‐share listed companies in China from 2010 to 2022, examines the impact of AI on corporate ESG performance and its mechanisms
Qin Zhu, Shanshan Jiang, Anna Min Du
wiley   +1 more source

A slack-based super efficiency in a two-stage network structure with intermediate measures

open access: yesAlexandria Engineering Journal, 2019
One of the main challenging issues in the conventional data envelopment analysis (DEA) is ranking efficient decision-making units (DMUs) when more than one DMU have the efficiency score equal to one.
Hoda Golshani   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessing Eco‐Efficiency in Municipal Solid Waste Management Integrating Heterogeneity: A Latent Class Stochastic Frontier Analysis

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The measurement of eco‐efficiency in the municipal solid waste (MSW) sector has garnered significant attention due to the substantial environmental impacts of unsustainable MSW management and the high operational costs associated with public service provision.
Ramon Sala‐Garrido   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Quantitative selection of hedge funds using data envelopment analysis [PDF]

open access: yes
Previous studies have documented that Data Envelopment Analysis(DEA) could be a good tool to evaluate fund performance,especially the performance of hedge funds as it can incorporatemultiple risk-return attributes characterizing hedge fund's nonnormal ...
Huyen Nguyen-Thi-Thanh
core  

Presentation the Data Envelopment Analysis/Goal Programming Integrated Model for Improves Decision making Unit’s Efficiency Measurement (Case study: the Bank Branches) [PDF]

open access: yesMuṭāli̒āt-i Mudīriyyat-i Ṣan̒atī, 2011
Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has been a very popular method for measuring and benchmarking relative efficiency of peer Decision Making Units (DMUs) with multiple input and outputs.
Mohamad Hosein Tahari Mehrjardi   +2 more
doaj  

Generalized tolerance sensitivity and DEA metric sensitivity

open access: yesCroatian Operational Research Review, 2015
This paper considers the relationship between Tolerance sensitivity analysis in optimization and metric sensitivity analysis in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA).
Luka Neralić, Richard E. Wendell
doaj   +1 more source

Water‐Energy Nexus: Benchmarking the Energy Efficiency of Drinking Water Treatment Plants Accounting for Heterogeneity

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The assessment of energy efficiency in water facilities is receiving increasing attention as a key strategy in the transition toward an energy‐neutral urban water cycle. This study evaluates the energy efficiency of 146 drinking water treatment plants (DWTPs) in Chile by applying a latent class stochastic frontier analysis (LCSFA) to account ...
Alexandros Maziotis   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

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