DEA congestion and returns to scale under an occurrence of multiple optimal projections

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 194, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 592-607

  Sueyoshi, Toshiyuki ^a,b   Sekitani, Kazuyuki ^c  

^a NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Congestion; DEA; Returns to scale

Indexed keywords

LINEAR PROGRAMMING; SOLUTIONS;

CONGESTION; DEA; ECONOMIC CONCEPTS; ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS; EUROPEAN; MULTIPLE SOLUTIONS; NEW APPROACHES; OPERATIONAL RESEARCHES; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; PRACTICAL; RESEARCH EFFORTS; RETURNS TO SCALE; RETURNS TO SCALES; SCALE ECONOMIES;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 54449089478     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2007.12.022     Document Type: Article

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