| 摘要 | 第5-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-9页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第10-16页 |
| Abbreviations | 第16-17页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第17-25页 |
| 1.1 Data Envelopment Analysis | 第17页 |
| 1.2 DEA in Sports Industry | 第17-18页 |
| 1.3 National Basketball Association (NBA) | 第18-20页 |
| 1.4 Motivation | 第20页 |
| 1.5 Contributions | 第20-22页 |
| 1.6 Research Objectives | 第22页 |
| 1.7 Thesis Structure | 第22-25页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第25-41页 |
| 2.1 Studies concerning Technical and Scale Efficiencies in DEA | 第27-28页 |
| 2.2 Applications of DEA in Sports Industry | 第28-31页 |
| 2.3 Application of DEA in Basketball Studies | 第31-32页 |
| 2.4 Multi-stage Data Envelopment Analysis applications | 第32-34页 |
| 2.5 Parallel DEA methodologies and DMU homogeneity | 第34-36页 |
| 2.6 Salary and performance indicators in Sports Efficiency | 第36-41页 |
| Chapter 3 Technical and Scale Efficiency of All-time NBA Leaders | 第41-59页 |
| 3.1 Introduction | 第41-43页 |
| 3.2 Methodology | 第43-47页 |
| 3.2.1 CCR and BCC Model Orientations | 第44-45页 |
| 3.2.2 Return to Scale in DEA | 第45-47页 |
| 3.2.3 Technical and Scale efficiency in DEA | 第47页 |
| 3.3 Data and variables | 第47-49页 |
| 3.4 Results and Discussion | 第49-57页 |
| 3.5 Conclusions | 第57-59页 |
| Chapter 4 Does higher performance lead to higher salary? DEA-basedModels for the evaluation of NBA games | 第59-103页 |
| 4.1 Introduction | 第59-61页 |
| 4.2 Methodology | 第61页 |
| 4.3 Efficiency decomposition in series and parallel systems | 第61-66页 |
| 4.4 Efficiency decomposition of nonhomogeneous parallel systems | 第66-70页 |
| 4.5 Relationship between overall system efficiency and its subsystem efficiencies | 第70-72页 |
| 4.6 Data sources | 第72-73页 |
| 4.7 Player's Salary,playing statistics and performance indicators | 第73-80页 |
| 4.7.1 Salary data | 第73页 |
| 4.7.2 NBA Statistics | 第73-75页 |
| 4.7.3 Variable selection | 第75-80页 |
| 4.8 Results and Discussion | 第80-100页 |
| 4.8.1 Efficiencies of the NBA players | 第80-84页 |
| 4.8.2 High salary players and efficiencies in each year (2005-2016) | 第84-93页 |
| 4.8.3 Relationship between salary and efficiency | 第93-95页 |
| 4.8.4 Impact of Salary on efficiency | 第95-97页 |
| 4.8.5 Relationship between salary and high efficiency players (N=2132) | 第97-100页 |
| 4.9 Conclusions | 第100-103页 |
| Chapter 5 Summary and Conclusion | 第103-109页 |
| Bibliography | 第109-121页 |
| Appendix A | 第121-131页 |
| Appendix B | 第131-157页 |
| Academic Articles and Research Outcomes in Study Period | 第157页 |
