Cost efficiency benchmarking for operational units with multiple cost drivers

Decision Sciences

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 813-832

  Troutt, Marvin D ^a,c   Gribbin, Donald W ^b   Shanker, Murali ^a   Zhang, Aimao ^b  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity based costing; Data envelopment analysis; Mathematical programming; Performance evaluation; Statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040213295     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.2000.tb00944.x     Document Type: Article

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