Evaluating contextual variables affecting productivity using data envelopment analysis

Operations Research

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 48-58

  Banker, Rajiv D ^a   Natarajan, Ram ^b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Effectiveness performance; Organizational studies: productivity; Probability: stochastic model applications; Simulation: applications; Statistics: nonparametric

Indexed keywords

CONTEXTUAL VARIABLES; ORGANIZATIONAL STUDIES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; PRODUCTIVITY; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 41549134360     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1070.0460     Document Type: Article

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