TY - JOUR ID - 15545 TI - Performance evaluation and specifying of Return to scale in network DEA JO - Journal of Advanced Mathematical Modeling JA - JAMM LA - en SN - 2251-8088 AU - Saleh, Hilda AU - hosseinzadeh, farhad AU - rostamy, mohsen AU - Shafiee, Morteza AD - Department of Mathematics, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran AD - Department of Mathematics, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University Tehran, Iran AD - Department of Industrial Management, Economic and Management Faculty, Shiraz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran Y1 - 2020 PY - 2020 VL - 10 IS - 2 SP - 309 EP - 340 KW - Performance evaluation KW - Return to scale KW - DEA KW - Network DEA DO - 10.22055/jamm.2020.29434.1719 N2 - Although Data envelopment analysis is a powerful technique for evaluation of decision making units with multiple inputs and outputs, internal activities are neglected and each unit treats as "black box" by considering only initial input and output in the basic DEA models. However, in this paper, a network DEA model for multi stages units was designed as a tool for considering the importance of internal relations. At first a new production possibility set was defined for two-stage units and introduced a new method for evaluation of two-stage units. Since, one of the most important issues in economical decision makings is RTS, a new algorithm for specify the RTS in two-stage units was presented by using of the new PPS, and then the proposed algorithm on empirical study was applied and the final results were analyzed. UR - https://jamm.scu.ac.ir/article_15545.html L1 - https://jamm.scu.ac.ir/article_15545_a2833e3610816e9a64750ca0da21d077.pdf ER -