Shipbuilding performance benchmarking

International Journal of Business Performance Management

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 216-235

  Floriano Jr , Pires ^a   Lamb, Thomas ^b   Souza, Cassiano ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; DEA; Performance assessment; Performance benchmarking; Shipbuilding benchmarking

Indexed keywords

EID: 64249102539     PISSN: 13684892     EISSN: 17415039     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBPM.2009.024372     Document Type: Article

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