Centralized Resource Planning and Yardstick Competition
Omega, Volume 41, Issue 1, January 2013, Pages 112-118 doi:10.1016/j.omega.2011.10.005
Posted: 15 Jan 2016
Date Written: February 14, 2013
Abstract
Multidivisional and decentralized firms often operate inefficiently. In most cases, central management’s instruments to influence its branches’ behavior are limited. Although relative performance evaluation has been argued to be of great use in defining incentive mechanisms, such approaches cannot be transferred easily to internal performance management. We approach this issue by changing the perspective of performance evaluation. Based on the recently introduced CRA-DEA model, we develop a new super-efficiency measure that enables to establish purposive intra-organizational incentive mechanisms. By means of a numerical example, analyzing the performance of a German retail bank, the applicability of our measure is shown and compared to standard DEA models. Centralized super-efficiency seems able to suit the specific needs of intra-organizational performance management.
Keywords: DEA, Game theory, Planning and control, Centralized resource allocation
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