Measuring efficiency and productivity in professional football teams: Evidence from the English Premier League

Central European Journal of Operations Research

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 309-328

  Guzmán, Isidoro ^a   Morrow, Stephen ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CARTAGENA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Canonical correlation analysis; Data envelopment analysis; Economics; Efficiency; Football; Malmquist productivity index

Indexed keywords

EID: 44849090315     PISSN: 1435246X     EISSN: 16139178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10100-007-0034-y     Document Type: Article

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