Dyckhoff / Souren Performance Evaluation

Foundations and Challenges
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-38732-7
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 115 Seiten

Reihe: Business and Management (R0)

This book examines performance evaluation in the context of assessing the non-financial outcomes of human activities. The topic is particularly relevant when economic, environmental or social performance has to be evaluated, e.g. the efficiency of actions and the lifecycles of products. The authors combine multi-criteria decision-making and production theories to develop a theoretical and methodological foundation for performance evaluation. They also demonstrate the typical pitfalls that are hindering the implementation of contemporary methods in practice. Special emphasis is placed on efficiency measurement with data envelopment analysis (DEA), and on data aggregation in life cycle assessment (LCA). 


?Harald Dyckhoff led the chair of business theory, sustainable production and industrial control at the RWTH Aachen University, Germany, from 1988 to 2016. His current research areas are production and decision theory, sustainable value creation and performance measurement. He has published several books and papers on different topics of cutting and packing, production theory, data envelopment analysis and fuzzy set theory. 
Rainer Souren has lead the group of sustainable production and logistics management at Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany, since 2006. His current research areas are production theory, sustainable closed loop management as well as waste management and controlling. He has published books and papers on different topics of production theory, closed loop management, waste management and sharing economy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dyckhoff, Harald

Souren, Rainer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;6
2;Contents;8
3;1 Main Performance Categories: Effectiveness and Efficiency;10
3.1;1.1 Rationale of (Non-financial) Performance Evaluation;11
3.2;1.2 Particular Aspects of Performance Evaluation;13
3.2.1;1.2.1 Basics and Theoretical Foundations;13
3.2.2;1.2.2 Concepts and Methods;19
3.2.3;1.2.3 Practical Aspects;25
3.3;1.3 Scope, Focus, and Contents of the Book;25
3.4;References;26
4;2 Multi-criteria Production Theory: Foundation of Performance Evaluation;28
4.1;2.1 MCPT: A Particular Instance of General Production Theory;29
4.1.1;2.1.1 Conception and Fundamental Axioms;29
4.1.2;2.1.2 Illustrative Example of Sustainability PerformanceEvaluation;33
4.1.3;2.1.3 Value Dominance and Value Efficiency;35
4.2;2.2 Linear Value Functions and Their Special Cases;36
4.2.1;2.2.1 Traditional and Environmental Production Theories;36
4.2.2;2.2.2 Main Proposition for Linear Value Functions;38
4.3;2.3 Nonlinear Value Functions and Their Special Cases;39
4.3.1;2.3.1 Difficulties in Cases of Nonlinear Value Functions;40
4.3.2;2.3.2 Main Propositions for Convex Value Possibilities;43
4.3.3;2.3.3 Main Propositions for Consistent Monotonic Valuations;45
4.4;2.4 First Insights and Conclusions;47
4.4.1;2.4.1 Empirical Realism of Purely Technological Axioms;47
4.4.2;2.4.2 Rationality of Inefficient Activities;50
4.4.3;2.4.3 Further Insights, Application Areas and Limitations;51
4.5;References;53
5;3 Data Envelopment Methodology of Performance Evaluation;55
5.1;3.1 Data Envelopment and Multi-criteria PerformanceAnalysis;56
5.1.1;3.1.1 Generalisation of DEA by MCPT;57
5.1.2;3.1.2 What Kind of Data May Be Enveloped?;59
5.1.3;3.1.3 Justification of Traditional DEA;63
5.2;3.2 DEA for the Classical Case of Goods;67
5.2.1;3.2.1 Oriented Radial Performance Measurement;68
5.2.2;3.2.2 Unoriented Additive Performance Measurement;74
5.2.3;3.2.3 Essentiality of Disposability Assumptions;76
5.3;3.3 DEA for the Standard Case of Goods and Bads;79
5.4;3.4 DEA for General Linear Value Functions;82
5.5;3.5 Further Insights and Conclusions;86
5.6;References;89
6;4 Challenges of Performance Evaluation in Practice;91
6.1;4.1 Balance and Specialisation as Performance Categories;92
6.2;4.2 Selection and Qualitative Differentiation of Inputs and Outputs;95
6.3;4.3 Choice of Alternatives and Weighting Factors;101
6.4;4.4 Detection of Key Performance Indicators and TheirDependencies;107
6.5;4.5 Comprehensive Concepts of Performance Evaluation;110
6.6;References;112
7;Correction to: Performance Evaluation;115