Publication:
A comparison of DEA models that consider the operating environment of a non-profit organization

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Authors
Read-Rodríguez, Gabriel E.
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Advisor
Medina-Borja, Alexandra
College
College of Engineering
Department
Department of Industrial Engineering
Degree Level
M.E.
Publisher
Date
2011
Abstract
Measuring and demonstrating results has become a question of survivability for many nonprofit organizations. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is one of the analytical tools that can be used for benchmarking and target setting among a set of similar operating units. Several scholars have studied how to best consider these non-discretionary variables in DEA by making modifications to the original formulation. Recent studies have analyzed and compared these models using simulated data and a small amount of decision making units (DMUs). The aim of our study is to analyze, compare and evaluate different models in the literature that incorporate the environment and their suitability for peer discrimination and target setting in nonprofit environments. We achieve this by using real data from a large social service organization with 937 DMUs all over the United States and territories. The Ruggiero 1998 model presents the best discriminatory power followed by the Medina-Borja 2002 model.

Mostrar y medir resultados se ha convertido en una cuestión de supervivencia para muchas organizaciones sin fines de lucro. El Análisis Envolvente de Datos (DEA) es una de las herramientas analíticas que se pueden utilizar para establecer puntos de referencia y de destino entre un conjunto de unidades que operan similar. Varios estudios han hecho modificaciones a la formulación original de DEA para manejar las variables que no se pueden controlar, mejor conocidas como no-discrecionales. Estudios recientes han analizado y comparado los modelos con datos simulados y una pequeña cantidad de unidades de decisión (DMUs). El objetivo de nuestro estudio es analizar, comparar y evaluar diferentes modelos que incorporan el medio ambiente. Utilizando datos reales de una organización grande que ofrece servicios sociales con novecientos treinta y siete DMUs en todo Estados Unidos y sus territorios. El modelo de Ruggiero de 1998 es el que presenta mejor poder discriminatorio seguido muy de cerca del modelo de Medina-Borja del 2002.
Keywords
Data Envelopment Analysis,
Nonprofit environments
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Read-Rodríguez, G. E. (2011). A comparison of DEA models that consider the operating environment of a non-profit organization [Project Report]. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11801/1497