The Efficiency of the Farmer’s Organizations in Taiwan —An Application of the Multiactivity DEA Model
Date Issued
2007
Date
2007
Author(s)
Chen, Po-Chi
DOI
zh-TW
Abstract
Taiwan's farmers' associations are characterized as general purpose, multi-service farmers' cooperatives with credit, extension, insurance, and marketing departments. This study modifies the multi-activity DEA model by Mar Molinero (1996) to evaluate the efficiency performance of individual departments when allocation of shared inputs (such as employees and fixed capitals) among the four departments are unclear. In particular, due to the risk of non-performing loans faced by credit department, the directional graph distance function is adopted in our study to provide a risk-adjusted performance measure. It is found that the performance of marketing and credit departments are in general much better than those of the extension and insurance departments. In addition, there are close ties among the efficiencies of the four departments. Thus, our result implies that farmers’ associations should strengthen their extension services and enhance grassroots connections to improve their overall performances.
Subjects
多部門資料包絡法
方向距離函數
共用要素
非意欲產出
multi-activity DEA
shared inputs
directional distance function
undesirable outputs
Type
thesis
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