Title of Document: THE TRANSFORMATIONAL ROLE OF IT IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP: CROWDFUNDING AND THE DEMOCRATIZATION OF ACCESS TO CAPITAL AND INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY Keongtae Kim, Doctor of Philosophy, 2014 Directed By: Associate Professor Il-Horn Hann Department of Decision, Operations and Information Technologies Associate Professor Siva Viswanathan Department of Decision, Operations and Information T...

the performance of a decision making unit (dmu) can be evaluated in either across-sectional or a time-series manner, and data envelopment analysis (dea) is a useful method for both types of evaluation. the malmquist productivity index (mpi) evaluates the change in efficiency of a dmu between two time periods. it is defined as the product of the catch-up and frontier-shift terms. in this paper, ...