Long-Term Economic Sustainability of Humanitarian Logistics-A Multi-Level and Time-Series Data Envelopment Analysis.

ABSTRACT: Although resources are scarce and outputs incorporate the potential to save human lives, efficiency measurement endeavors with data envelopment analysis (DEA) methods are not yet commonplace in the research and practice of non-government organizations (NGO) and states involved in humanitarian logistics. We present a boot-strapped DEA window analysis and Malmquist index application as a methodological state of the art for a multi-input and multi-output efficiency analysis and discuss specific adaptions to typical core challenges in humanitarian logistics. A characteristic feature of humanitarian operations is the fact that a multitude of organizations are involved on at least two levels, national and supra-national, as well as in two sectors, private NGO and government agencies. This is mod

SUBMITTER: Klumpp M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7956518 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature