Measurement of Environmental Efficiency by Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in the Small Business of Supply Chain Oil and Gas Potiguar
Data Envelopment Analysis, Environmental Efficiency, Supply Chain Oil and Gas Potiguar.
This doctoral thesis aims at identifying and meeting the market needs, use of potentials and overcoming difficulties, pursuing the development of Small Business of Supply Chain Oil and Gas do Rio Grande do Norte through market access and strengthening competitiveness by improving environmental management in order to identify the extent to which small enterprises of production of oil and gas chain are environmentally efficient. To measure the environmental efficiency will be used Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), which is a mathematical programming technique that analyzes the performance in terms of relative efficiency of different borrowing decision-making Units from a set of inputs and outputs. From the results obtained this search thesis check which companies achieved level of environmental efficiency becoming benchmarking to help improve environmental management of other companies, to establish mechanisms for self-assessment and continuous improvement of practices applied in improving environmental management. Finally, we intend to contribute to maximizing the environmental efficiency, cost reduction, identification methods improvements in operational processes to add value and strengthen business competitiveness in the region, contribute to the segment strengthen knowledge on environmental issues have to evaluate its environmental efficiency and set up self-evaluation mechanisms and continuous improvement of practices developed, seeking to promote actions for environmental improvement of small business.