Establishing the "practical frontier" in data envelopment analysis

Omega

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 261-272

  Sowlati, Taraneh ^a   Paradi, Joseph C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Linear programming; Productivity and competitiveness

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; EFFICIENCY; LINEAR PROGRAMMING;

BANK BRANCHES; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS MODELS; DECISION MAKING UNIT; INPUT AND OUTPUTS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING MODELS; LINEAR-PROGRAMMING; OUTPUT LEVELS; PRODUCTION UNITS; PRODUCTIVITY AND COMPETITIVENESS; THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENT;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 1842811133     PISSN: 03050483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.omega.2003.11.005     Document Type: Article

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