Efficiency measures for multiplant firms

  • Authors:
  • Rolf Färe;Daniel Primont

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Economics, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901, USA;Department of Economics, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901, USA

  • Venue:
  • Operations Research Letters
  • Year:
  • 1984

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Abstract

Previous studies of output-based efficiency measures make no distinction between plant data and firm data. In this paper two new efficiency measures are proposed and characterized in the context of multiplant firms. An empirical example is given to illustrate the two measures.