Performance evaluation of participating nations at the 2012 London Summer Olympics by a two-stage data envelopment analysis

•We firstly assess the performance of participants in a two-stage Olympic process.•We extend the relational model (Kao & Hwang, 2008) to the VRS version.•A heuristic search procedure is applied to the non-linear extended model.•We prove that the efficiency for the entire two-stage Olympic proces...

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Published in:	European journal of operational research Vol. 243; no. 3; pp. 964 - 973
Main Authors:	Li, Yongjun, Lei, Xiyang, Dai, Qianzhi, Liang, Liang
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 16-06-2015 Elsevier Sequoia S.A
Subjects:	Computational efficiency Computing time Constants Data envelopment analysis Efficiency Heuristic Heuristic search procedure Mathematical models Nations Olympic games Operations research Performance evaluation Scale (ratio) Studies Summer Two-stage process United Kingdom > UK England London England Two-stage process Performance evaluation Heuristic search procedure Data envelopment analysis
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