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Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 42 (2008) 151–157 www.elsevier.com/locate/seps

Evaluation of research in efficiency and productivity: A survey and analysis of the first 30 years of scholarly literature in DEA

Ali Emrouznejada,Ã, Barnett R. Parkerb, Gabriel Tavaresc

Operations &Information Management, Aston Business School, Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK b Graduate School of Business, Pfeiffer University, Charlotte, NC 28209, USA c RUTCOR, Rutgers Centre for Operations Research, Rutgers University, 640 Bartholomew Road, Piscataway, NJ, 08854-8003, USA Available online 4 March 2008 The authors wish to dedicate this compendium of DEA’s historical accomplishments to one of its founders, Professor William W. Cooper

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Abstract Since the original Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) study by Charnes et al. [Measuring the efficiency of decisionmaking units. European Journal of Operational Research 1978;2(6):429–44], there has been rapid and continuous growth in the field. As a result, a considerable amount of published research has appeared, with a significant portion focused on DEA applications of efficiency and productivity in both public and private sector activities. While several bibliographic collections have been reported, a comprehensive listing and analysis of DEA research covering its first 30 years of history is not available. This paper thus presents an extensive, if not nearly complete, listing of DEA research covering theoretical developments as well as ‘‘real-world’’ applications from inception to the year 2007. A listing of the most utilized/relevant journals, a keyword analysis, and selected statistics are presented. r 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Keywords: Data Envelopment Analysis; Bibliography; Survey

1. Introduction The present bibliography includes most of the references published in the field of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) up to the year 2007. Some publications in 2007 are also listed, but not included in...