Best practice analysis of bank branches: An application of DEA in a large Canadian bank

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 269-289

  Schaffnit, Claire ^a   Rosen, Dan ^a   Paradi, Joseph C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Banking; Data Envelopment Analysis; Efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000034196     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-2217(96)00347-5     Document Type: Article

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