TY - JOUR
T1 - Ratio and frontier analysis for assessing corporate performance
T2 - evidence from the grocery industry in the uk
AU - Athanassopoulos, Antreas D.
AU - Ballantine, Joan A.
PY - 1995/1/1
Y1 - 1995/1/1
N2 - This paper considers the use of alternative methodologies for assessing corporate performance of industrial sectors within the economy. It is argued that the use of ratio analysis in itself is insufficient for assessing performance, and that more advanced tools like data envelopment analysis should be used to complement ratio analysis. Data envelopment analysis is used in the paper to address a series of issues concerning the measurement of corporate performance, which includes an assessment of sales’ efficiency, the effects of economies of scale, benchmarking of a firm’s performance and the association between industry groups and performance. The paper uses data drawn from the grocery industry in the UK.
AB - This paper considers the use of alternative methodologies for assessing corporate performance of industrial sectors within the economy. It is argued that the use of ratio analysis in itself is insufficient for assessing performance, and that more advanced tools like data envelopment analysis should be used to complement ratio analysis. Data envelopment analysis is used in the paper to address a series of issues concerning the measurement of corporate performance, which includes an assessment of sales’ efficiency, the effects of economies of scale, benchmarking of a firm’s performance and the association between industry groups and performance. The paper uses data drawn from the grocery industry in the UK.
KW - Corporate performance
KW - Data envelopment analysis
KW - Grocery industry
KW - Ratio analysis
KW - Strategic planning
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84974863487&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1057/jors.1995.62
DO - 10.1057/jors.1995.62
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84974863487
VL - 46
SP - 427
EP - 440
JO - Journal of the Operational Research Society
JF - Journal of the Operational Research Society
SN - 0160-5682
IS - 4
ER -