Productivity Assessment in Data Envelopment Analysis

Abstract

Malmquist Productivity Index (MPI) is taken into consideration by different researchers in different theoretical and scientific fields after S. Malmquist presented it. This index has a profound meaning and is used in a number of applications for performance evaluation. In literature, there exist variety of subjects consider this index, each of which tries to develop it from different points of view. Here, the aim, in accordance to the importance of this index, is to try gathering most of the issues, related to this subject, from the oldest one to the newest one, in a framework of a review chapter.