Congestion in the Chinese automobile and textile industries revisited

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 177-191

  Flegg, A T ^a   Allen, D O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Congestion; Data envelopment analysis; Inefficiency

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY; CONGESTION; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; TEXTILE INDUSTRY;

EID: 64049118717     PISSN: 00380121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2008.10.003     Document Type: Article

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