Measuring performance of Indian banks: An application Data Envelopment Analysis

International Journal of Business Performance Management

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 57-85

  Debnath, Roma Mitra ^a   Shankar, Ravi ^b  

^a Institute for Integrated Learning in Management   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Banking sector; Data Envelopment Analysis; DEA; India; Performance evaluations

Indexed keywords

EID: 39149118963     PISSN: 13684892     EISSN: 17415039     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBPM.2008.015921     Document Type: Article

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