A fairer assessment of DMUs in a generalised two-stage DEA structure

Organising faculty/school/research group: Business and Law / Center for Enterprise and Innovation (CEI) / Innovative Logistics and Supply Chains (ILSC)

Date and time: Thu, 12 May 2022, 13:00 – 14:00

Location/Venue: Online

Presenter: Dr. Marios Kremantzis, Lecturer in Business Analytics, School of Management, University of Bristol

Key contact: Professor Adel Hatamimarbini at adel.hatamimarbini@dmu.ac.uk

This seminar session will give insight of a generalized two-stage structure featuring additional inputs in the second stage and a proportion of first-stage outputs as final outputs in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). This variety of approaches have been used in the context of single-stage and basic serial two-stage systems to attain fairness in the evaluation of decision-making units (DMUs). This presentation aims to show that fairness is enhanced by increasing measures related to the discriminatory power and the weighting scheme of the method and describe the mechanism that gives prominence to a more contemporary concept of fairness, incorporating diversity and inclusion of minority opinions.