Efficiency Measurement Using Data Envelopment Analysis in TSE Listed Companies (Applying Information Technology Criteria’s)

Abstract

Today companies are operating in a changing environment, so they have to cope themselves with these changing environment using different tools such as Information Technologies. In this case using this technology is increasing overtime. Measuring the impact of these technologies on company’s efficiency and outputs has been on a long debate. In this article we applied Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to measure these effects and to rank Iranian Stock Exchange listed companies. Results showed that DEA is a very strong technique in measuring the IT investment outputs based on efficiency rankings, also the BCC model of DEA is more powerful.

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