TY - JOUR
T1 - Measuring the efficiency of forest districts with multiple working circles
AU - Kao, C.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgment—This research is supported by the National Science Council of the Republic of China under Contrarct No. NSC85-2416-H006-003. The author is also grateful to the effort of Mr CK Kao in executing the linear programs.
PY - 1998/6
Y1 - 1998/6
N2 - Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a methodology extensively applied to measuring the relative efficiency of decision making units with multiple inputs and multiple outputs. Herein, a DEA model is developed to measure the efficiency of forest districts which are divided into a number of subdistricts called working circles (WCs). The idea is to construct district production frontiers from the WCs of individual districts. Superimposing the district production frontiers of different districts one derives the forest production frontier. The closeness of a district production frontier to the forest production frontier indicates this district’s efficiency. As an illustration, the developed model measures the eight districts, with a total of thirty-four WCs, of the national forests of the Republic of China on Taiwan. The results provide the top management with an idea of how far each district can be expected to improve its performance when compared with other districts.
AB - Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a methodology extensively applied to measuring the relative efficiency of decision making units with multiple inputs and multiple outputs. Herein, a DEA model is developed to measure the efficiency of forest districts which are divided into a number of subdistricts called working circles (WCs). The idea is to construct district production frontiers from the WCs of individual districts. Superimposing the district production frontiers of different districts one derives the forest production frontier. The closeness of a district production frontier to the forest production frontier indicates this district’s efficiency. As an illustration, the developed model measures the eight districts, with a total of thirty-four WCs, of the national forests of the Republic of China on Taiwan. The results provide the top management with an idea of how far each district can be expected to improve its performance when compared with other districts.
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U2 - 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2600570
DO - 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2600570
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0032096892
VL - 49
SP - 583
EP - 590
JO - Journal of the Operational Research Society
JF - Journal of the Operational Research Society
SN - 0160-5682
IS - 6
ER -