Title :
Profitability evaluation of cross-industry Canadian companies using data envelopment analysis
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Inf. Technol., York Univ., Toronto, ON, Canada
Abstract :
This paper presents an evaluation of profitability efficiency of 284 Canadian companies using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). In order to address systematic difference among different industries, cross-system analysis is applied to evaluate the performance of Canadian companies in different industries. The results indicate that there is still potential to improve the performance for Canadian companies.
Keywords :
data envelopment analysis; organisational aspects; profitability; Canadian company performance; cross-industry Canadian companies; cross-system analysis; data envelopment analysis; profitability evaluation; Analytical models; Companies; Data envelopment analysis; Industries; Petroleum; Production; Profitability; Data Envelopment Analysis; efficiency; profitability;
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM), 2010 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Macao
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8501-7
Electronic_ISBN :
2157-3611
DOI :
10.1109/IEEM.2010.5674395
