Financial efficiency of companies operating in the Kosovo food sector: DEA and DEAHP

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) evaluates a large number of input and output variables using mathematical programming techniques analyzes the effectiveness similar decision making units (DMU). Unlike traditional methods, most important advantage DEA is that weights can be defined by analyzer. In this study, limitations were determined AHP, which considers expert opinion. addition, an alternative judgment scale was used for Saaty scale, as standard in AHP method, thus more sensitive analysis performed. There have been studies dealing with comparison scales, but few on consistency sensitivity are needed. This point has also addressed study. Subsequently, financial efficiency 27 companies operating food sector Kosovo evaluated weight-restricted model, first created unweighted model then two models compared. paper one its kind since there no previous regarding examination based DEAHP method.