Economic inefficiency measurement of input spending when decision-making units face different input prices

Journal of the Operational Research Society

Volumn 55, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1102-1110

  Fukuyama, H ^a   Weber, W L ^b  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SOUTHEAST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Application areas (BA: Banking); Techniques approaches (DE: Data envelopment analysis)

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; COSTS; DATA REDUCTION; ESTIMATION; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; PROBLEM SOLVING;

COST EFFICIENCY; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS (DEA); ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY; FARRELL MEASURES;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 5444223021     PISSN: 01605682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601750     Document Type: Conference Paper

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