Theory of integer-valued data envelopment analysis under alternative returns to scale axioms

Omega

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 988-995

  Kazemi Matin, Reza ^a   Kuosmanen, Timo ^b  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Efficiency; Mixed integer linear programming; Production theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 60649119128     PISSN: 03050483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.omega.2008.11.002     Document Type: Article

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