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Data Envelopment Analysis: Recent Developments and Challenges

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Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) methods have been widely used in many fields, including operations research, optimization, operations management, industrial engineering, accounting, management, and economics. This chapter starts with an introduction to common DEA-based models in the envelopment and multiplier forms to illustrate the importance of these models. Then, we provide details of the recent theoretical developments including Network DEA, Stochastic DEA, Fuzzy DEA, Bootstrapping, Directional measures, desirable (good) and undesirable (bad) factors, and Directional returns to scale. This is followed by the presentation of some novel applications of DEA to provide direction for future developments in this field. In summary, this chapter aims to discuss some of the latest developments in DEA and provide direction for future research.

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We would like to acknowledge the support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC, No. 72071196).

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  1. Surrey Business School, The University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, UK

    Ali Emrouznejad

  2. Institutes of Science and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Guo-liang Yang

  3. Department of Applied Mathematics, Yadegar-e-Imam Khomeini (RAH) Shahre Rey Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

    Mohammad Khoveyni

  4. Aston Business School, Aston University, Birmingham, UK

    Maria Michali

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Emrouznejad, A., Yang, Gl., Khoveyni, M., Michali, M. (2022). Data Envelopment Analysis: Recent Developments and Challenges. In: Salhi, S., Boylan, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Operations Research . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96935-6_10

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