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Centralized Resource Allocation Using Data Envelopment Analysis

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  1. Heinz Ahn & Peter Bogetoft & Ana Lopes, 2019. "Measuring potential sub-unit efficiency to counter the aggregation bias in benchmarking," Journal of Business Economics, Springer, vol. 89(1), pages 53-77, February.
  2. Adel Hatami-Marbini & Zahra Ghelej Beigi & Hirofumi Fukuyama & Kobra Gholami, 2015. "Modeling Centralized Resources Allocation and Target Setting in Imprecise Data Envelopment Analysis," International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making (IJITDM), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 14(06), pages 1189-1213, November.
  3. Fang, Lei, 2015. "Centralized resource allocation based on efficiency analysis for step-by-step improvement paths," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 51(C), pages 24-28.
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  5. Zhao, Jiqiang & Wu, Xianhua & Guo, Ji & Gao, Chao, 2022. "Allocation of SO2 emission rights in city agglomerations considering cross-border transmission of pollutants: A new network DEA model," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 325(C).
  6. Contreras, I. & Lozano, S., 2022. "Size efficiency, splits and merger gains, and centralized resource reallocation of Spanish public universities," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 81(C).
  7. Kristiaan Kerstens & Bouye Ahmed Moulaye Hachem & Ignace Van de Woestyne & Niels Vestergaard, 2008. "Optimal Capacity Utilization and Reallocation in a German Bank Branch Network: Exploring Some Strategic Scenarios," Working Papers 2008-ECO-19, IESEG School of Management.
  8. Menghan Chen & Sheng Ang & Lijing Jiang & Feng Yang, 2020. "Centralized resource allocation based on cross-evaluation considering organizational objective and individual preferences," OR Spectrum: Quantitative Approaches in Management, Springer;Gesellschaft für Operations Research e.V., vol. 42(2), pages 529-565, June.
  9. Fang, Lei, 2022. "Measuring and decomposing group performance under centralized management," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 297(3), pages 1006-1013.
  10. Giménez, Víctor & Thieme, Claudio & Prior, Diego & Tortosa-Ausina, Emili, 2022. "Evaluation and determinants of preschool effectiveness in Chile," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 81(C).
  11. Afsharian, Mohsen & Bogetoft, Peter, 2023. "Limiting flexibility in nonparametric efficiency evaluations: An ex post k-centroid clustering approach," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 311(2), pages 633-647.
  12. C. Vaz & A. Camanho & R. Guimarães, 2010. "The assessment of retailing efficiency using Network Data Envelopment Analysis," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 173(1), pages 5-24, January.
  13. Kristiaan Kerstens & Jafar Sadeghi & Ignace Van de Woestyne, 2019. "Plant Capacity and Attainability: Exploration and Remedies," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 67(4), pages 1135-1149, July.
  14. Mohsen Afsharian, 2020. "A metafrontier-based yardstick competition mechanism for incentivising units in centrally managed multi-group organisations," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 288(2), pages 681-700, May.
  15. Chih-Ching Yang, 2017. "Measuring health indicators and allocating health resources: a DEA-based approach," Health Care Management Science, Springer, vol. 20(3), pages 365-378, September.
  16. S Lozano & G Villa, 2005. "Centralized DEA models with the possibility of downsizing," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 56(4), pages 357-364, April.
  17. Hien Thu Pham & Antonio Peyrache, 2015. "Industry Inefficiency Measures: A Unifying Approximation Proposition," CEPA Working Papers Series WP102015, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
  18. Feng, Chenpeng & Chu, Feng & Ding, Jingjing & Bi, Gongbing & Liang, Liang, 2015. "Carbon Emissions Abatement (CEA) allocation and compensation schemes based on DEA," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 53(C), pages 78-89.
  19. Akram Dehnokhalaji & Mojtaba Ghiyasi & Pekka Korhonen, 2017. "Resource allocation based on cost efficiency," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 68(10), pages 1279-1289, October.
  20. Afsharian, Mohsen & Ahn, Heinz & Thanassoulis, Emmanuel, 2017. "A DEA-based incentives system for centrally managed multi-unit organisations," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 259(2), pages 587-598.
  21. Du, Juan & Cook, Wade D. & Liang, Liang & Zhu, Joe, 2014. "Fixed cost and resource allocation based on DEA cross-efficiency," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 235(1), pages 206-214.
  22. Xiong, Xi & Yang, Guo-liang & Zhou, De-qun & Wang, Zi-long, 2022. "How to allocate multi-period research resources? Centralized resource allocation for public universities in China using a parallel DEA-based approach," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 82(PB).
  23. Cecilio Mar-Molinero & Diego Prior & Maria-Manuela Segovia & Fabiola Portillo, 2014. "On centralized resource utilization and its reallocation by using DEA," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 221(1), pages 273-283, October.
  24. Antonio F. Amores & Thijs ten Raa, 2021. "Firm Efficiency, Industry Performance and the Economy: Three-Way Decomposition with an Application to Andalusia," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Efficiency and Input-Output Analyses Theory and Applications, chapter 5, pages 67-89, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
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  26. Gupta, Anshu & Pachar, Nomita & Jain, Akansha & Govindan, Kannan & Jha, P.C., 2023. "Resource reallocation strategies for sustainable efficiency improvement of retail chains," Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, Elsevier, vol. 73(C).
  27. Cesaroni, Giovanni, 2020. "Technically and cost-efficient centralized allocations in data envelopment analysis," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 70(C).
  28. Ray, Subhash, 2016. "Cost efficiency in an Indian bank branch network: A centralized resource allocation model," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 65(C), pages 69-81.
  29. Gabriel Villa & Sebastián Lozano & Sandra Redondo, 2021. "Data Envelopment Analysis Approach to Energy-Saving Projects Selection in an Energy Service Company," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 9(2), pages 1-15, January.
  30. Dai, Qianzhi & Li, Yongjun & Lei, Xiyang & Wu, Dengsheng, 2021. "A DEA-based incentive approach for allocating common revenues or fixed costs," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 292(2), pages 675-686.
  31. Yu, Anyu & Lee, Andy & Chen, Yao, 2021. "Carbon allocation targeting with abatement capability: A firm-level study," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 235(C).
  32. Bo Hsiao & LihChyun Shu & Ming-Miin Yu & Li-Kang Shen & Ding-Jiun Wang, 2017. "Performance evaluation of the Taiwan railway administration," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 259(1), pages 119-156, December.
  33. Andreas C. Georgiou & Konstantinos Kaparis & Eleni-Maria Vretta & Kyriakos Bitsis & George Paltayian, 2024. "A Bilevel DEA Model for Efficiency Evaluation and Target Setting with Stochastic Conditions," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 12(4), pages 1-21, February.
  34. Zhang, Yanfang & Wei, Jinpeng & Gao, Qi & Shi, Xunpeng & Zhou, Dequn, 2022. "Coordination between the energy-consumption permit trading scheme and carbon emissions trading: Evidence from China," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 116(C).
  35. Peyrache, Antonio, 2015. "Cost constrained industry inefficiency," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 247(3), pages 996-1002.
  36. Yang, Mian & Hou, Yaru & Fang, Chao & Duan, Hongbo, 2020. "Constructing energy-consuming right trading system for China's manufacturing industry in 2025," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 144(C).
  37. Zhou, P. & Sun, Z.R. & Zhou, D.Q., 2014. "Optimal path for controlling CO2 emissions in China: A perspective of efficiency analysis," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 45(C), pages 99-110.
  38. Kuang, Yunming & Lin, Boqiang, 2022. "Natural gas resource utilization, environmental policy and green economic development: Empirical evidence from China," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 79(C).
  39. Antonio Peyrache & Maria C. A. Silva, 2019. "The Inefficiency of Production Systems and its decomposition," CEPA Working Papers Series WP052019, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
  40. Afsharian, Mohsen & Ahn, Heinz & Thanassoulis, Emmanuel, 2019. "A frontier-based system of incentives for units in organisations with varying degrees of decentralisation," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 275(1), pages 224-237.
  41. Cherchye, Laurens & Rock, Bram De & Walheer, Barnabé, 2015. "Multi-output efficiency with good and bad outputs," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 240(3), pages 872-881.
  42. Laurens Cherchye & Bram De Rock & Veerle Hennebel, 2017. "Coordination efficiency in multi-output settings: a DEA approach," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 250(1), pages 205-233, March.
  43. A Z Milioni & J V G de Avellar & T N Rabello & G M de Freitas, 2011. "Hyperbolic frontier model: a parametric DEA approach for the distribution of a total fixed output," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 62(6), pages 1029-1037, June.
  44. Cesaroni, Giovanni, 2018. "Industry cost efficiency in data envelopment analysis," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 61(C), pages 37-43.
  45. Liu, John S. & Lu, Louis Y.Y. & Lu, Wen-Min, 2016. "Research fronts in data envelopment analysis," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 58(C), pages 33-45.
  46. Kristiaan Kerstens & Jafar Sadeghi & Ignace Woestyne & John Walden, 2024. "Short-run Johansen frontier-based industry models: methodological refinements and empirical illustration on fisheries," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 61(1), pages 47-62, February.
  47. Mostafa Davtalab-Olyaie & Hadis Mahmudi-Baram & Masoud Asgharian, 2023. "Measuring individual efficiency and unit influence in centrally managed systems," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 321(1), pages 139-164, February.
  48. Tao Ding & Ya Chen & Huaqing Wu & Yuqi Wei, 2018. "Centralized fixed cost and resource allocation considering technology heterogeneity: a DEA approach," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 268(1), pages 497-511, September.
  49. Wang, Derek D., 2019. "Performance-based resource allocation for higher education institutions in China," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 65(C), pages 66-75.
  50. Min Yang & Qingxian An & Tao Ding & Pengzhen Yin & Liang Liang, 2019. "Carbon emission allocation in China based on gradually efficiency improvement and emission reduction planning principle," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 278(1), pages 123-139, July.
  51. Lozano, Sebastián, 2023. "Bargaining approach for efficiency assessment and target setting with fixed-sum variables," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 114(C).
  52. Ane Elixabete Ripoll-Zarraga & Sebastián Lozano, 2020. "A centralised DEA approach to resource reallocation in Spanish airports," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 288(2), pages 701-732, May.
  53. Contreras, I. & Lozano, S., 2020. "Allocating additional resources to public universities. A DEA bargaining approach," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 71(C).
  54. Siriopoulos, Costas & Tziogkidis, Panagiotis, 2010. "How do Greek banking institutions react after significant events?--A DEA approach," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 38(5), pages 294-308, October.
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  56. Lozano, Sebastián & Contreras, Ignacio, 2022. "Centralised resource allocation using Lexicographic Goal Programming. Application to the Spanish public university system," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 84(C).
  57. Lei Fang & C-Q Zhang, 2008. "Resource allocation based on the DEA model," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 59(8), pages 1136-1141, August.
  58. Feng Li & Qingyuan Zhu & Liang Liang, 2019. "A new data envelopment analysis based approach for fixed cost allocation," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 274(1), pages 347-372, March.
  59. E G Gomes & M P E Lins, 2008. "Modelling undesirable outputs with zero sum gains data envelopment analysis models," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 59(5), pages 616-623, May.
  60. Antonio Peyrache & Maria C. A. Silva, 2023. "Efficiency decomposition for multi-level multi-components production technologies," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 60(3), pages 273-294, December.
  61. Lorenzo Castelli & Raffaele Pesenti & Walter Ukovich, 2010. "A classification of DEA models when the internal structure of the Decision Making Units is considered," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 173(1), pages 207-235, January.
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  63. Lau, Kwok Hung, 2013. "Measuring distribution efficiency of a retail network through data envelopment analysis," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 146(2), pages 598-611.
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  66. Laura Calzada-Infante & Sebastián Lozano, 2022. "Computing multiperiod efficiency using dominance networks," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 309(1), pages 37-57, February.
  67. Afsharian, Mohsen & Ahn, Heinz & Harms, Sören Guntram, 2019. "Performance comparison of management groups under centralised management," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 278(3), pages 845-854.
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