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The Debreu–Farrell measure of technical efficiency is widely used to benchmark firm performance. A limitation of this measure is that it is orientation restricted and evaluates the performance of a decision-making unit in an explicit direction relative to the best-practice frontier and not the most productive point on the frontier. Therefore, the measure does not provide policy insight on how to direct decision-making units to achieve the best possible productivity level. Taking a departure from conventional nonparametric benchmarking studies, this study benchmarks the performance of commercial farm businesses in the Western Australia’s wheatbelt region using total factor productivity efficiency (‘TFP efficiency’) and compares the results to those when the conventional technical efficiency measures are applied. We find that the two measures of firm performance differ and are influenced by different sources of firm heterogeneity. Therefore, derived policy insights and prescriptions also differ. This is an important insight that policymakers and practitioners need to be aware of.

The choice of efficiency benchmarking metric in evaluating firm productivity and viability