Allocation of shared costs among decision making units: A DEA approach

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 2171-2178

  Cook, Wade D ^a   Zhu, Joe ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

DEA; Efficiency; Fixed cost

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARETO PRINCIPLE; PROBLEM SOLVING; SET THEORY;

COST ALLOCATION; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS (DEA); DECISION MAKING UNITS (DMU); VARIABLE RETURNS TO SCALE (VRS);

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 10644230097     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2004.02.007     Document Type: Article

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