: Harald Dyckhoff, Rainer Souren
: Performance Evaluation Foundations and Challenges
: Springer-Verlag
: 9783030387327
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: CHF 47.80
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: Allgemeines, Lexika
: English
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his 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 Dyckhoffled 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. 

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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.
Preface6
Contents8
1 Main Performance Categories: Effectiveness and Efficiency10
1.1 Rationale of (Non-financial) Performance Evaluation11
1.2 Particular Aspects of Performance Evaluation13
1.2.1 Basics and Theoretical Foundations13
1.2.2 Concepts and Methods19
1.2.3 Practical Aspects25
1.3 Scope, Focus, and Contents of the Book25
References26
2 Multi-criteria Production Theory: Foundation of Performance Evaluation28
2.1 MCPT: A Particular Instance of General Production Theory29
2.1.1 Conception and Fundamental Axioms29
2.1.2 Illustrative Example of Sustainability PerformanceEvaluation33
2.1.3 Value Dominance and Value Efficiency35
2.2 Linear Value Functions and Their Special Cases36
2.2.1 Traditional and Environmental Production Theories36
2.2.2 Main Proposition for Linear Value Functions38
2.3 Nonlinear Value Functions and Their Special Cases39
2.3.1 Difficulties in Cases of Nonlinear Value Functions40
2.3.2 Main Propositions for Convex Value Possibilities43
2.3.3 Main Propositions for Consistent Monotonic Valuations45
2.4 First Insights and Conclusions47
2.4.1 Empirical Realism of Purely Technological Axioms47
2.4.2 Rationality of Inefficient Activities50
2.4.3 Further Insights, Application Areas and Limitations51
References53
3 Data Envelopment Methodology of Performance Evaluation55
3.1 Data Envelopment and Multi-criteria PerformanceAnalysis56
3.1.1 Generalisation of DEA by MCPT57
3.1.2 What Kind of Data May Be Enveloped?59
3.1.3 Justification of Traditional DEA63
3.2 DEA for the Classical Case of Goods67
3.2.1 Oriented Radial Performance Measurement68
3.2.2 Unoriented Additive Performance Measurement74
3.2.3 Essentiality of Disposability Assumptions76
3.3 DEA for the Standard Case of Goods and Bads79
3.4 DEA for General Linear Value Functions82
3.5 Further Insights and Conclusions86
References89
4 Challenges of Performance Evaluation in Practice91
4.1 Balance and Specialisation as Performance Categories92
4.2 Selection and Qualitative Differentiation of Inputs and Outputs95
4.3 Choice of Alternatives and Weighting Factors101
4.4 Detection of Key Performance Indicators and TheirDependencies107
4.5 Comprehensive Concepts of Performance Evaluation110
References112
Correction to: Performance Evaluation115