..., contingent on resource conditions and the level of capabilities. Design/methodology/approach This study presents an innovative three-stage data envelopment (DEA)-Tobit regression (Tobit)-multi-layer perceptron neural network (MLP) approach. The integrated analytic process includes an evaluation of firm...

... periods. Because n remains constant as time passes, for the next forecast, a new (most recent) period data point is included, and the “oldest” data point is excluded from the calculation. Forecasting Soft computing Fuzzy inference system Neural network Genetic algorithm...