Abstract:Though various ranking methods in the data envelopment analysis (DEA) context have emerged since the conventional DEA was introduced, none of them has not been accepted as a universal or a superior method for ranking decision-making units (DMUs). The DEA-based ranking methods show some shortcomings as the numbers of inputs and outputs for DMUs increase. To overcome such shortcomings, this paper proposes a two-step procedure of ranking DMUs more effectively and consistently. In the first step, the multi-object… Show more
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