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not improve the level of relative eciency of the Followers. Consequently, prior to
increasingthe level of the investments in telecommunications, the Followers must
improve the eectiveness of the revenue production associated with the current
level of the investments.
Discussion and Conclusion
e nonparametric nature of DEA does not present a problem for the assessment of
relative eciency of technological artifacts, as long as it belongs to the same domain.
When we attempt to compare the level of performance of natural, social, or
sociotechnical entities, we immediately end up on a fundamentally unstable ground,
for there is very little we can do to ensure that the subjects of our comparison ...