Learning from input–output mixes in DEA: A proportional measure for slack-based efficient projections

Managerial and Decision Economics

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 151-161

  Cherchye, Laurens ^a   Van Puyenbroeck, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

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EID: 5444264982     PISSN: 01436570     EISSN: 10991468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1468(199905)20:3<151::AID-MDE924>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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