Using DEA to measure efficiency in forest and paper companies

Forest Products Journal

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 58-66

  Lee, Jun Yen ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAYI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COSTS; DECISION MAKING; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERFORMANCE; SALES;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS (DEA); FOREST COMPANIES; NON-PARAMETRIC PROGRAMMING; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY;

PAPER AND PULP MILLS;

CAPITAL; COMPETITION; COSTS; DECISION MAKING; FOREST PRODUCTS INDUSTRY; PAPER MILLS; PERFORMANCE; SALES;

EID: 12744280911     PISSN: 00157473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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