TY - JOUR
T1 - The Rat Race between World Cities: In Search of Exceptional Places by Means of Super-Efficient Data Envelopment Analysis
AU - Kourtit, K.
AU - Nijkamp, P.
AU - Suzuki, S.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - This paper aims to provide a new methodological and empirical contribution to the rising literature on the relative performance and benchmarking of large cities in a competitive world. On the basis of a recent detailed database on many achievement criteria of 35 major cities in the world, it seeks to arrive at a relative performance ranking of these cities by using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). A novel element is the use of a new type of 'Super-Efficiency DEA' to identify unambiguously the high performers ('Exceptional Places') in the group of world cities investigated. This new productivity-based approach is complemented with two new directions in DEA research, viz. a Distance Friction Method and a Context-Dependent method. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.
AB - This paper aims to provide a new methodological and empirical contribution to the rising literature on the relative performance and benchmarking of large cities in a competitive world. On the basis of a recent detailed database on many achievement criteria of 35 major cities in the world, it seeks to arrive at a relative performance ranking of these cities by using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). A novel element is the use of a new type of 'Super-Efficiency DEA' to identify unambiguously the high performers ('Exceptional Places') in the group of world cities investigated. This new productivity-based approach is complemented with two new directions in DEA research, viz. a Distance Friction Method and a Context-Dependent method. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2012.08.007
DO - 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2012.08.007
M3 - Article
SN - 0198-9715
VL - 38
SP - 67
EP - 77
JO - Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
JF - Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
IS - March
ER -