DEA cross‐efficiency aggregation based on preference structure and acceptability analysis

Although a considerable amount of efforts have been made to overcome the drawbacks of traditional equal aggregation in the Data Envelopment Analysis cross-efficiency evaluation, the endogenous preference structures in the cross-efficiency matrix are still largely unexplored. We first untangle both preferential differences denoting the preference degrees among different Decision Making Unit (DMU), and preferential priorities denoting the favorite...