Review of Measuring Efficiency: An Assessment of Data Envelopment
						Analysis. New Directions for Program Evaluation.

Information Technology (IT) outsourcing is a set of IT services that require providers to manage a long relationship with multiple services that have a high degree of variance between clients. IT outsourcing operational contexts display multi-input and multi-output variables, so managers need guidance on developing suitable approaches in order to identify the set of variables to analyse. This work proposes a model based on Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), which is a linear programming technique able to manipulate multiple inputs and outputs. DEA allows the identification of the most efficient operation, which in turn enables providers to set the best operational strategy to follow. The results demonstrate the importance of quantitative measures in a dynamic business environment like IT outsourcing. To develop the authors' research, design science research was applied, and eighteen IT outsourcing contracts were used to demonstrate their model's utility. This work is a major contribution for measuring efficiency in IT outsourcing operations.

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Research Performance Evaluation for Measuring Efficiency with Data Envelopment Analysis Method

2018 Seventh International Conference of Educational Innovation through Technology (EITT) ◽

10.1109/eitt.2018.00058 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Dongxue Liu ◽

Hongtao Sun ◽

Luoying Huang

Keyword(s):

Performance Evaluation ◽

Data Envelopment Analysis ◽

Research Performance ◽

Data Envelopment ◽

Analysis Method ◽

Measuring Efficiency ◽

Research Performance Evaluation

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Data envelopment analysis in measuring the efficiency of volleyball teams in Primorsko-Goranska County

Zbornik Veleučilišta u Rijeci ◽

10.31784/zvr.8.1.14 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 121-134

Author(s):

Jelena Jardas Antonić ◽

Kristina Kregar ◽

Nenad Vretenar

Keyword(s):

Data Envelopment Analysis ◽

Efficiency Analysis ◽

Efficiency Score ◽

Financial Resources ◽

Data Envelopment ◽

Financial Factors ◽

Measuring Efficiency ◽

Dea Models ◽

Sport Organisation ◽

Ccr Model

Every sport organisation strives to evaluate its performance: its weaknesses and strengths. Measuring efficiency and sports are two interrelated concepts and it is not surprising that most of the research on sports is focused on analysing the efficiency of teams according to player techniques, attack and defence efficiency. However, there are very few studies based on the analysis of financial factors such as teams’ revenue and costs. In this paper two Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) models were used to evaluate 16 young cadet volleyball teams in Primorsko-Goranska County based on two economic inputs. The paper aims to explain the importance of teams’ financial resources in achieving sports efficiency. To analyse the relative efficiency of teams, two frequently used models are employed, the Banker Charnes Cooper (BCC) and the Charnes Cooper Rhodes (CCR) model. In the end, a super efficiency analysis was conducted to make a distinction in efficiency scores between efficient units. Analyses showed that financial factors are not crucial factors for efficiency score and gave possibility to use obtained results and improve the performance of inefficient volleyball teams. The study was conducted on a sample of 16 teams through 4 inputs and 1 output collected during 2017/2018 season.

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