A modified slacks-based measure model for data envelopment analysis with 'natural' negative outputs and inputs

Journal of the Operational Research Society

Volumn 58, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1672-1677

  Sharp, J A ^a,b   Meng, W ^a   Liu, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Modified slacks based measure; Negative inputs; Negative outputs; Range directional model

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DECISION MAKING; INVARIANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS (DEA); NEGATIVE INPUTS; NEGATIVE OUTPUTS; RANGE DIRECTIONAL MODEL;

DATA REDUCTION;

EID: 36248966117     PISSN: 01605682     EISSN: 14769360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602318     Document Type: Article

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