Dynamic multi-directional inefficiency analysis of European dairy manufacturing firmsMagdalena Kapelko and Alfons Oude Lansink European Journal of Operational Research, 2017, vol. 257, issue 1, 338-344 Abstract: This paper extends the method of multi-directional inefficiency analysis to account for dynamics of firms’ production decisions. The resulting approach – dynamic multi-directional inefficiency analysis – measures variable input- and investment-specific inefficiency using Data Envelopment Analysis. The empirical application focuses on panel data of large dairy manufacturing firms over the period 2005–2012 in three European regions (Eastern, Southern and Western). The results show that investments are the most inefficient factor for firms in all European regions, followed by labour and materials. However, the findings also suggest a high dispersion of investment-specific inefficiency scores within the sample. The paper also finds that the median dynamic inefficiency is changing rapidly in the years after the beginning of the financial crisis. Keywords: Data Envelopment Analysis; Multi-directional inefficiency analysis; Dynamic inefficiency; Dairy manufacturing industry (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:ejores:v:257:y:2017:i:1:p:338-344 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2016.08.009 Access Statistics for this article European Journal of Operational Research is currently edited by Roman Slowinski, Jesus Artalejo, Jean-Charles. Billaut, Robert Dyson and Lorenzo Peccati More articles in European Journal of Operational Research from Elsevier |
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