Abstract:

In order to evaluate the operational efficiency of global textile and clothing enterprises and then assist enterprises to make decisions for partner selection or investment, three typical global regions, China, Japan and North America were selected to conduct contrastive analysis, and 70 global textile and clothing listed enterprises were filtered. Based on DEA approach, three evaluation models, CRS-DEA, VRS-DEA and SE-DEA, were proposed to conduct the analysis of efficiency performance, returns to scale, resource allocation and benchmarking enterprise. The results show that the enterprises under evaluation are 86% efficient, and they still have the room for improvement; 70% enterprises show decreasing returns to scale, and they have the low investment enthusiasm; the labor redundancy is the main problem for resource allocation, and the cost allocation performance is better that followed by capital allocation performance; Chinese enterprises have a trend of polarization in operational efficiency; the Lululemon company shows a distinguished performance.

Key words: textile and clothing enterprise, data envelopment anslysis, operational efficiency, returns to scale, resource allocation