Overview
- Combines decision-making and production theory to better understand the premises, potentials and limitations of traditional performance measurement methods
- Illustrates the principal ideas and mechanisms of performance evaluation
- Demonstrates (eco-)efficiency measurement using data envelopment analysis (DEA) and life cycle assessment (LCA)
- Offers guidance on how to apply data envelopment analysis and on how to avoid common pitfalls
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Business (BRIEFSBUSINESS)
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About this book
This 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).
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Performance Evaluation
Book Subtitle: Foundations and Challenges
Authors: Harald Dyckhoff, Rainer Souren
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Business
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38732-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-38731-0Published: 14 January 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-38732-7Published: 13 January 2020
Series ISSN: 2191-5482
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5490
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 106
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Operations Research/Decision Theory, Production, Human Resource Development, Quality of Life Research