Applying the stochastic frontier approach to measure hotel managerial efficiency in Taiwan

Tourism Management

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 696-702

  Chen, Ching Fu ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

International; Managerial efficiency; Stochastic cost frontier; Tourist hotel

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; STOCHASTICITY; TOURISM ECONOMICS;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 34548262356     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2006.04.023     Document Type: Article

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