RT Journal Article
T1 Centralised resource allocation using Lexicographic Goal Programming. Application to the Spanish public university system
A1 Lozano, Sebastian
A1 Contreras Rubio, Ignacio
K1 Centralised DEA
K1 Resource allocation
K1 Target setting
K1 Lexicographic goal programming
K1 Spanish public universities
AB This paper deals with Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in centralised settings in which the operating units belong to the same organisation. In such a scenario, a global system-wide perspective may be adopted as regards resource allocation and target setting. In this paper, a new Lexicographic Goal Programming (lexGP) approach is proposed using three priority levels: the aggregated input consumption and output production goals; the input and output goals of the individual operating units; and the technical efficiency of the computed targets. It is assumed that the goals for the overall organisation are established by the Central Decision-Maker (CDM) and that they are consistent with those of the individual operating units. The proposed approach has been applied to the Spanish public university system, comprising 47 institutions. Given the CDM preferences in terms of input and output aggregate goals and relative importance weights, specific technical efficient targets have been computed for each university. The results show that the proposed approach is more suitable than the non-centralised DEA approach and produces targets that are more effective than other centralised resource allocation approaches in the sense that they are much closer to both the aggregate goals of the CDM and the specific goals of each university.
PB Elsevier
SN 0038-0121
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10433/14343
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10433/14343
LA en
NO Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2022  (In press)
NO Identificador de proyecto: FEDER-UPO UPO-1380624
NO Universidad de Sevilla
DS RIO
RD May 13, 2026