Efficiency ranking of the OECD member states in the area of telecommunications: A composite AHP/DEA study

Telecommunications Policy

Volumn 32, Issue 9-10, 2008, Pages 672-685

  Giokas, D I ^a   Pentzaropoulos, G C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process; Benchmarking; Data envelopment analysis; OECD area; Policy requirements; Production and revenue efficiency; Telecommunications

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; COBALT; COBALT COMPOUNDS; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; PUBLIC POLICY; TELECOMMUNICATION; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ANALYTIC HIERARCHIES; DATA SERIES; EFFICIENCY RANKINGS; MEMBER STATES; NUMERICAL EXAMPLES; OECD AREA; OVERALL EFFICIENCIES; PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS; POLICY IMPLICATIONS; POLICY REQUIREMENTS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL ANALYSES;

DECISION THEORY;

EID: 55749092122     PISSN: 03085961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2008.07.007     Document Type: Article

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