Investigation on the operational Performance of state owned electric Utilities in india

Abstract

This research work presents a case study in which Data newlineEnvelopment Analysis DEA is applied to measure the relative operational newlineEfficiency benchmark share measure and Malmquist Productive Index of the newline29 State Owned Electric Utilities SOEUs in India DEA is a new data newlineOriented multi factor productivity analysis approach which calculates the newlineRelative Efficiency RE of homogeneous peer units called Decision Making newlineUnits DMU This method aims at measuring how efficiently a DMU uses newlinethe resources available to generate the set of outputs newlineThe definition measurement and improvement of organizational newlineperformance are of critical importance to the organizations today The newlinerecession both national and international experience over the past ten years newlinehas undoubtedly increased the importance of performance measurement at the newlineinter and intra organization level Company strategists are also concerned newlinewith the performance of their firms as well as the general performance trends newlinewithin the industrial sector in which they operate newline newline