... Returns to scale Two-stage network Scale economies Decision-making Benchmarking DEA Efficiency analysis The investigation of the performance and returns to scale (RTS) are important subjects for planning and decision-making in different economic and business organizations. One of the most...

... for banks listed on the Egyptian Exchange, to help managers generate what-if scenarios? For performance improvement and benchmarking. Design/methodology/approach The study empirically tested the three-stage DEA-ANN framework. First, DEA was used as a preprocessor of the banks’ efficiency scores. Second...

... © Emerald Publishing Limited 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Decision-making Supply chain management Modeling Benchmarking Game theory Analytics First of all, our work falls within the literature of supply chain management, many papers in this area...

... robust technical efficiency scores and have benchmarking abilities, whereas the ANN models use abstract learning from a limited set of information and provide the predictive power. Design/methodology/approach The complementary modeling approaches of the DEA and the ANN provide an adaptive decision...

... target and improve environmental performance. Design/methodology/approach In such background, the authors use a within-group common benchmarking model with data envelopment analysis for China’s environmental evaluation and target setting in this paper. This model considers a common treatment...