The role of dea in csr efficiency evaluation

Authors

  • Tetiana Botsian Zhytomyr Ivan Franko State University Veluka Berdichivska str., 40, Zhytomyr, Ukraine, 10008, Ukraine
  • Olga Karpiuk Zhytomyr Ivan Franko State University Veluka Berdichivska str., 40, Zhytomyr, Ukraine, 10008, Ukraine

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15587/2313-8416.2015.38067

Keywords:

CSR efficiency, corporate social responsibility, Data Envelopment Analysis, CSR input factors, CSR output factors, efficiency estimation, frontier analysis

Abstract

Measuring CSR has been widely discussed as a problematic issue in business literature. The main reason is its importance for companies’ reputation, stakeholders’ valuations and academic research. This paper provides an introduction to the problem of measuring CSR (corporate social responsibility) activity effectiveness. The main purpose of it is to apply a non-parametric DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) methodology for measuring CSR performance taking in accounts specified inputs and output of social business activity

Author Biographies

Tetiana Botsian, Zhytomyr Ivan Franko State University Veluka Berdichivska str., 40, Zhytomyr, Ukraine, 10008

Associated professor

Department of Management and Administration

Olga Karpiuk, Zhytomyr Ivan Franko State University Veluka Berdichivska str., 40, Zhytomyr, Ukraine, 10008

Associated professor

Department of Management and Administration

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Published

2015-02-23

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 3 (7) (2015)

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Economics

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