“…In other words, either output expansion or input decrease is the primary evaluation goal. More than half of the studies (55.06%, 49 of 89) [46][47][48][50][51][52][53][54]58,60,[64][65][66][67][68][69][71][72][73][75][76][77]80,[91][92][93][94]96,98,99,[103][104][105][106][107][109][110][111][113][114][115][116]118,121,124,127,128,130,135] applied input-orientated DEA models. The researchers indicated that the choice of input orientation was made to be in line with th...…”