Moving frontier analysis: An application of Data Envelopment Analysis for competitive analysis of a high-technology manufacturing plant

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 66, Issue , 1996, Pages 197-218

  Sinha, Kingshuk K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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EID: 21444438876     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02187591     Document Type: Article

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