Regional performance measurement and improvement : new developments and applications of data envelopment analysis / Soushi Suzuki, Peter Nijkamp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Suzuki, Soushi, author.

Nijkamp, Peter, author.

Series:

New frontiers in regional science: Asian perspectives ; v. 9.

New frontiers in regional science: Asian perspectives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Data envelopment analysis--Japan.

Data envelopment analysis.

Industrial efficiency--Measurement.

Industrial efficiency.

Performance--Measurement.

Performance.

Japan.

Physical Description:

xii, 185 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Springer, [2017]

Summary:

This is the first book to fully introduce a newly developed distance friction minimization (DFM) model, which is one of the new efficiency improvement projection approaches in data envelopment analysis (DEA). The DFM model can produce a most effective solution in efficiency improvement projections for inefficient spatial entities (decision-making units). The book provides a set of fresh contributions to a quantitative assessment of the performance of such policy entities. First it offers a state-of-the art overview of current DEA models and approaches, followed by the operational design of various new types of DEA models, each of them addressing weaknesses in traditional DEA approaches. Then it illustrates the assessment potential of DEA and its new variants, in particular, the DFM model and subsequent extensions on the basis of a broadly composed collection of empirical case studies, centering mainly but not exclusively on Japan and other Asian nations.

Contents:

Introduction

Part I. DEA model foundations and adjustments

Overview of DEA and its improvements

Significance of DEA for regional performance measurement

The distance friction minimization (DFM) model in DEA

Extended DFM models in DEA

Part II. Applications

Performance measurement of local government finance in Japan: combinations of goals-achievement model with a CCR model

Performance measurement of public transport operation in Japan: combination of stepwise improvement model with CCR model

Performance measurement of global cities: combination of a stepwise improvement model with an SE model

An energy-environment performance analysis after the Fukushima disaster in Japan: combination of a target-oriented model with an SE model

The need for a new energy performance balance in Japan: combination of an adjusted-improvement model with a CCR model

Measurement of energy-environment-economic performance for EU, APEC, and ASEAN countries: combination of a fixed-factor model with an SE model

Performance measurement of airport operations in Japan: combination of a stepwise improvement model with a fixed-factor model

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789811002410

981100241X

OCLC:

928614702