This paper evaluates the relative efficiency of a sample of 37 large pharmaceutical laboratories in the period 2008-2013 using a data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach. We describe in detail the ...

The cross-efficiency evaluation method represents a significant enrichment of conventional data envelopment analysis (DEA) by incorporating peer evaluations to rank decision-making units (DMUs ...

Data envelopment analysis methods classify the decision making units into two groups: efficient and inefficient ones. Therefore, the fully ranking all DMUs is demanded by most of the decision makers.