DEA-bilateral performance comparison: An application to Japan agricultural co-operatives (Nokyo)

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Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 233-248

  Sueyoshi, Toshiyuki ^a   Hasebe, Tadashi ^b   Ito, Fusao ^b   Sakai, Junichi ^b   Ozawa, Wataru ^c  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Bilateral performance comparison; Data envelopment analysis

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST REDUCTION; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS;

BILATERAL PERFORMANCE COMPARISON; COMPARATIVE COSTS; COST ANALYSIS; COST INDEXES; COSTS REDUCTION; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; PERFORMANCE COMPARISON; PRODUCTION ANALYSIS; PRODUCTION INDEX; REDUCTION RATIOS;

AGRICULTURE;

EID: 0001557015     PISSN: 03050483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0483(97)00069-8     Document Type: Article

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