• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: A Well-Defined Composite Indicator: An Application to Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Beteiligte: Aparicio, Juan; Kapelko, Magdalena; Monge, Juan F.
  • Erschienen: Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020
  • Erschienen in: Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1007/s10957-020-01701-1
  • ISSN: 0022-3239; 1573-2878
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>This paper introduces a model to construct composite indicators for performance evaluation of decision making units, which is based upon the determination of the least distance from each assessed unit to a frontier estimated by data envelopment analysis. This generates less demanding targets from a benchmarking point of view. The model also makes it possible to account for the existence of slacks in all the considered dimensions (sub-indicators), playing with the notion of Pareto efficiency. Additionally, our approach satisfies units invariance, translation invariance and strong monotonicity and ensures that the weights used for the aggregation of the sub-indicators are always strictly positive. All previous approaches based on data envelopment analysis have failed to satisfy at least one of these properties. We also implement a new version of the Russell output measure of technical efficiency working with full-dimensional efficient facets. Finally, the new approach is illustrated by an application to the sphere of corporate social responsibility, showing the main empirical implications of the theoretical properties.</jats:p>