The Korea Local Administration Review

This study aims to empirically analyze the factors affecting efficiency of Local Public water Enterprises using Game cross-efficiency model in Data Envelopment Analysis(DEA). For this purpose, this study conducted analyses using Panel Tobit regression Model and Panel Tobit regression Model, using the balanced panel data of 107 Local Public Water Enterprises belong to the regional local government and basic local government of South Korea from 2012 through 2014. The analysis results are as follows. As result of factor analysis on the efficiency of Local Public Water Enterprises, the increase of the proportion of subsidies among the factors of organizational resources had a negative (-) correlation with the efficiency. Among the factors of the management ability of the highest administrator, the increase of leadership and external environmental management ability had a positive (+) correlation with the efficiency. And among the factors of the external support network, the increase of the ruling party manager, unlike the hypothesis, had a negative (-) correlation with the efficiency, and the increase of the budget expenditure per citizen had a positive (+) correlation with the efficiency.

□ Keywords: Game Cross-efficiency, Efficiency, Organizational Performance