Measures of farm business efficiency

Industrial Management and Data Systems

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 258-270

  Bojnec, Štefan ^a   Latruffe, Laure ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRIMORSKA   (Slovenia)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Process efficiency; Slovenia; Stochastic modelling

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

BUSINESS EFFICIENCY; ECONOMIC EFFICIENCIES; PROCESS EFFICIENCY;

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 40749160447     PISSN: 02635577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02635570810847617     Document Type: Article

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