Measuring The Efficiency Of The Performance Of Cement Industry Companies In lraq By Using Data Envelopment Analysis

Abstract

Abstract

For more than three decades, researchers have embarked on a quantitative and analytical tool called DEA to measure and evaluate performance. This tool has been applied in various and varied economic and administrative branches and sectors ... in many contexts around the world.

The main objective of this research is to measure the technical efficiency in the cement industry, as the research sample included eleven factories distributed over three regions of Iraq, the Northern Cement Company, the Central Cement Company, and the Southern Cement Company. 

The methodology adopted by this research is based on the use of DEA data envelope analysis, which is a non-parameter linear programming method. 

The research concluded that the companies under investigation were not, for the most part, technically efficient. The efficient companies constituted (27%) in 2018 from the total companies that achieved this percentage to (18%) in 2019. 

some restrictions faced the researchers in obtaining statistical data at the factory level at the Ministry of Planning, the Ministry of Industry and the General Company for Construction Industries, as the case required her to go to the governorates in light of the current circumstance, but the researcher did not obtain data for all factories in Iraq. 

This research is the first attempt in Iraq and at the level of the industry and its branches. It was conducted and stood on the level of performance of these factories, as the researcher tried to associate the results of performance efficiency and the results of the total factor productivity with each other to come out with a vision consistent in its output.