A response to the critiques of DEA by Dmitruk and Koshevoy, and Bol

Journal of Productivity Analysis

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 15-21

  Cooper, W W ^a   Huang, Z ^b   Li, S ^b   Zhu, J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b ADELPHI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Effectiveness measures; Efficiency measures; Performance evaluations

Indexed keywords

EID: 37349075765     PISSN: 0895562X     EISSN: 15730441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11123-007-0061-7     Document Type: Article

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