<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This paper used a data envelopment analysis (DEA) to measure the performance of the nations participating in the Commonwealth Games. To increase the consistency of the research, multiple models were employed to validate the result, but the nature of the input and output remained same throughout the paper. The objective of this study was to establish some realistic targets in terms of number of players for all participant countries and evaluations of their performance as well as benchmarks against the most efficient country. This study would help the nations optimize the size of their players to maximize the outcome in terms of the number of medals won in sporting events.</p></abstract>

This paper used a data envelopment analysis (DEA) to measure the performance of the nations participating in the Commonwealth Games. To increase the consistency of the research, multiple models were employed to validate the result, but the nature of the input and output remained same throughout the paper. The objective of this study was to establish some realistic targets in terms of number of players for all participant countries and evaluations of their performance as well as benchmarks against the most efficient country. This study would help the nations optimize the size of their players to maximize the outcome in terms of the number of medals won in sporting events.

Measuring Efficiency of Nations in Multi Sport Events: A case of Commonwealth Games XIX

Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi, India

Indian Institute of Management Lucknow, Noida, India

Naše gospodarstvo/Our economy

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This paper used a data envelopment analysis (DEA) to measure the performance of the nations participating in the Commonwealth Games. To increase the...

Measuring Efficiency of Nations in Multi Sport Events: A case of Commonwealth Games XIX

Published Online: Mar 01, 2015

Page range: 25 - 36

Received: Sep 01, 2014

Accepted: Jan 01, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ngoe-2015-0003

Keywords
Performance measurement, data envelopment analysis, efficiency, Commonwealth Games

© 2015 Roma Mitra Debnath and Ashish Malhotra

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Measuring Efficiency of Nations in Multi Sport Events: A case of Commonwealth Games XIX

Published Online: Mar 01, 2015

Page range: 25 - 36

Received: Sep 01, 2014

Accepted: Jan 01, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ngoe-2015-0003

KeywordsPerformance measurement, data envelopment analysis, efficiency, Commonwealth Games

© 2015 Roma Mitra Debnath and Ashish Malhotra

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Performance measurement, data envelopment analysis, efficiency, Commonwealth Games