AN INTEGRATED FUZZY AHP/DEA APPROACH FOR PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF TERRITORIAL UNITS IN TURKEY
Calik, Ahmet and Yapici Pehlivan, Nimet and Kahraman, Cengiz
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Abstract
Due to the differences between regions and sub-regions in the countries,
some problems come out especially in economic and social life. The issue
of differences of regions has been widely implemented to evaluate the
economic performance of Turkey in many disciplines. The objective of
this paper is to evaluate the efficiency of 26 sub-regions of NUTS-2
classification using integration Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP)
with Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The integrated FAHP/DEA method
compprises two stages. In the first stage, linguistic terms are used to
determine the decision makers' opinion and are converted to quantitative
forms by using FAHP methods. Subsequently, in the second stage, DEA
method is applied to obtain relative efficiency of sub-regions in
Turkey. The integrated FAHP/DEA method is illustrated with a real case
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