Li, Yongjun, Li, Feng, Emrouznejad, Ali, Liang, Liang and Xie, Qiwei (2019). Allocating the fixed cost:an approach based on data envelopment analysis and cooperative game. Annals of Operations Research, 274 (1-2), 373–394.
Abstract
Allocating the fixed cost among a set of users in a fair way is an important issue both in management and economic research. Recently, Du et al. (Eur J Oper Res 235(1): 206–214, 2014) proposed a novel approach for allocating the fixed cost based on the game cross-efficiency method by taking the game relations among users in efficiency evaluation. This paper proves that the novel approach of Du et al. (Eur J Oper Res 235(1): 206–214, 2014) is equivalent to the efficiency maximization approach of Li et al. (Omega 41(1): 55–60, 2013), and may exist multiple optimal cost allocation plans. Taking into account the game relations in the allocation process, this paper proposes a cooperative game approach, and uses the nucleolus as a solution to the proposed cooperative game. The proposed approach in this paper is illustrated with a dataset from the prior literature and a real dataset of a steel and iron enterprise in China.
Publication DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-018-2860-9 |
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Divisions: | College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School > Operations & Information Management |
Additional Information: | The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10479-018-2860-9 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Cooperative game,Data envelopment analysis (DEA),Fixed cost allocation,Nucleolus,General Decision Sciences,Management Science and Operations Research |
Publication ISSN: | 1572-9338 |
Last Modified: | 12 Dec 2024 08:15 |
Date Deposited: | 02 May 2018 12:35 |
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PURE Output Type: | Article |
Published Date: | 2019-03-15 |
Published Online Date: | 2018-04-21 |
Accepted Date: | 2018-04-20 |
Authors: |
Li, Yongjun
Li, Feng Emrouznejad, Ali ( 0000-0001-8094-4244) Liang, Liang Xie, Qiwei |