Technological leadership and variety: A Data Envelopment Analysis for the French machinery industry

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 68, Issue , 1996, Pages 361-377

  Bernard, Jean ^a   Cantner, Uwe ^b   Westermann, Georg ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Data envelopment Analysis; Technological performance; Technology variety

Indexed keywords

EID: 21444443834     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02207222     Document Type: Article

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