- 著者
- 鈴木 聡士 Peter NIJKAMP Piet RIETVELD
- 出版者
- 日本地域学会
- 雑誌
- 地域学研究 (ISSN:02876256)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.38, no.4, pp.1041-1053, 2008 (Released:2009-04-30)
- 参考文献数
- 20
- 被引用文献数
- 3 6
Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has become an established approach in the analysis of efficiency problems in both public and private sectors. The aim of this paper is to present a newly developed Distance Friction Minimization (DFM) approach based on the BCC (Banker-Charnes-Cooper) model in order to provide an appropriate efficiency-improving projection model in DEA. In this approach a generalized distance friction will be developed to assist a Decision Making Unit (DMU) in improving its efficiency by a proper movement towards the efficiency frontier surface. Our DFM model is based on a generalized distance friction function and serves to assist a DMU in improving its performance by a proper movement towards the efficiency frontier surface. Standard DEA models use a uniform input reduction or a uniform output augmentation in the improvement projections, but our DFM approach aims to generate a new contribution to efficiency enhancement strategies by deploying a weighted projection function, while it may address both input reduction and output augmentation as a strategy of a DMU. A suitable form of multidimensional projection functions mapping out efficiency improvement is given by a Multiple Objective Quadratic Programming (MOQP) model in conformity with a Euclidean distance. The above-mentioned extended DEA model will be empirically illustrated by using a data set on government-ordinance-designated cities in Japan, where the aim is to increase the efficiency of administration management in these cities, based on various input and output performance characteristics of these cities.JFL classification: C44, C61, H72
- 著者
- Fabiana FORTE Luigi Fusco GIRARD Peter NIJKAMP
- 出版者
- JAPAN SECTION OF THE REGIONAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL
- 雑誌
- 地域学研究 (ISSN:02876256)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.35, no.4, pp.947-963, 2006 (Released:2007-06-01)
- 参考文献数
- 26
- 被引用文献数
- 6 16
Creativeness is not only the trademark of successful entrepreneurship in a business environment, but is also a necessary ingredient for success and achievement in a complex policy system. The urban environment is one of the places ‘par excellence’ where creative ideas and actions can flourish, if they are supported by smart policy. Urban planning is one of the multi-faceted constellations that have triggered an uninterrupted attention in the literature after World War II. It has in recent years put creativeness high on the strategic agenda. This paper aims to offer new perspectives for strategic development of an urban system, on the basis of creative knowledge management that should induce innovative investment developments in an urban setting. The ultimate goal would be to make the city more attractive and thereby to contribute to urban welfare as a multi-attribute policy objective.The conceptual framework of the paper is elucidated by presenting an empirical comparative case study on Italian urban areas, with a major interest in Caserta (in the Campania region in Italy). The analytical framework deployed in this paper is based on recent multi-criteria methods.