Multi-Period Sustainability Performance in the Presence of Discrete and Bounded Measures

Sustainability performance assessment is a significant aspect for organizations for making sustainable decisions. Measuring sustainability performance of firms in a time span covered several periods also leads to more rational decision making and planning by managers. Furthermore, in many real world applications, there are discrete and bounded measures. Therefore, an approach based on DataEnvelopment Analysis (DEA) is proposed in this paper to analyze sustainability performance of Decision Making Units (DMUs) in multiple periods of time when discrete and bounded factors are presented. To illustrate, the performance of systems is measured for each dimension, including economic, social and environmental and for each period. Also, the overall multi-period sustainability performance is estimated using the suggested method. An example is used to illustrate the proposed approach.

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Sustainability Performance , Data Envelopment Analysis , Multi-Period , Discrete , Bounded