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Zastosowanie nieparametrycznej metody DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) do pomiaru efektywności spółek komunalnych
The application of nonparametric method of DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) to measure the efficiency of municipal companies

Author(s): Łukasz Żabski
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu
Keywords: nonparametric DEA method; efficiency; municipal companies;

Summary/Abstract: The main aim of this article is to present the results of measuring the effectiveness of the companies in which units of local government own shares using the non-parametric method of DEA. In achieving the above purpose the method of analysis of literature has been used within the range of the efficiency of municipal companies, with special regard to municipal sector, method of studying the inner documents of analysed companies paying particular attention to financial-economic ratios and nonparametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The study involved municipal companies from the province of Lower Silesia belonging to three municipal sectors (housing, management of the municipal waste and waterworks-sewer).The presented results of the analysis of efficiency of the municipal companies by nonparametric DEA method are characterized by low efficiency of action oriented to minimizing the costs at so far level of effects. In addition, the study highlighted the utilitarian use of the DEA method to measure and evaluate the efficiency of municipal companies.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 481
  • Page Range: 152-168
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish