Title
Stochastic Scale Elasticity
Date Issued
01 January 2022
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
book part
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Springer
Abstract
To analyze the performance of firms (decision-making units, DMUs) in the literature, several economic concepts such as economies of scale (returns to scale, RTS), economies of scope, marginal rates of technical substitutions, etc., have been used. Banker et al. (2004) studied RTS in different DEA models. In this chapter, however, we concentrate on determining and measuring RTS. Scale elasticity (SE) is a quantitative measure of the RTS characterization of the firms operating on the production frontier, which is used to determine improvement or deterioration in their productivities by resizing their scales of operation.
Start page
119
End page
145
Volume
317
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Economía Ingeniería industrial
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85121257495
Resource of which it is part
International Series in Operations Research and Management Science
ISSN of the container
08848289
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