Maritime shipping industry and productivity in Japan

Maritime Economics and Logistics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 291-301

  Managi, Shunsuke ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Firm level data; Luenberger indicator; Maritime shipping industry; Productivity measurements

Indexed keywords

EID: 36749026571     PISSN: 14792931     EISSN: 1479294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.mel.9100187     Document Type: Article

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