A Quantitative Approach to Evaluate the Relative Efficiency of Museums

Public intervention on heritage conservation and determinants of heritage authorities’ performance: a semi-parametric analysis

“…Finally, two contributions focus on the efficiency analysis of museums. Pignataro and Zanola (2001) analyse the efficiency levels of museums located in two very different Italian regions (Sicily and Piedmont), whereas Basso and Funari (2004) focus on many public Italian museums computing DEA efficiency levels and decomposing the efficiency scores into pure technical and scale components. Finally, Del Barrio et al (2009) investigate the efficiency of Spanish museums management.…”

Efficiency of international cooperation schemata in African countries: A comparative analysis using a data envelopment analysis approach

“…Where ϕ 0 and φ 0 represent the efficiency indicators for each orientation, y rj and x ij represent the amount of output r and input i of DMU j, ur 0 and vi 0 represent the weights of output r and input i. Finally, ε is a small enough-positive value which the weights cannot fall (Basso & Funari 2004).…”

Measuring the relative efficiency of cultural-historical museums in Tehran: DEA approach

“…Indeed, some organizations may have several conflicting objectives; for example, some goals of the organization management may be in contrast with the aims of the financing bodies. Moreover, Basso and Funari [8] propose that it may be difficult to define the various goals precisely.…”

“…In fact, applying Data Envelopment Analysis for evaluating technical efficiency of museums has been less noticed in the pertinent literature. Nonetheless, Basso and Funari [8] carry out an empirical analysis on data from Italian municipal museums by means of DEA techniques to evaluate the technical efficiency of cultural institutions. In addition, del Barrio et al [1] evaluate the technical efficiency of a regional system of museums through DEA approach, the hypothesis being that these bodies represent one organization of productive resources (employment, equipment, art collections, and so on), aimed at providing various goods and services linked to their fundamental functions: conservation, exhibiting, research and dissemination of cultural heritage.…”

“…This questionnaire was designed based on the several interviews with museum experts and the indexes are selected based on the literature. As it is stated by Basso and Funari [8], inputs include all the resources required by the organization for its activities, such as, for example, the square meters of exhibition area, number of custodians and number of other workers. Outputs may take into consideration the services provided by the museums at all levels.…”