“…DEA is commonly used to analyse the efficiency of organizations. Variants of DEA models have been utilised in multiple sectors such as agriculture (Geng et al, 2019;Hesampour et al, 2022;Pan et al, 2022;Sun & Sui, 2023), healthcare (Afonso et al, 2023;Kumar et al, 2020;Onder et al, 2022), financial (Amin & Ibn Boamah, 2023;Boubaker et al, 2023;Muhammad Adib et al, 2023;Ullah et al, 2023), education (Abankina et al, 2016;Ghasemi et al, 2020;Mammadov & Aypay, 2020) and many more.…”