Efficiency decompositions for heterogeneous technologies

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 199, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 209-218

  Kounetas, Konstantinos ^a   Mourtos, Ioannis ^b   Tsekouras, Konstantinos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Most productive scale size; Production efficiency

Indexed keywords

CASE-STUDIES; HETEROGENEOUS TECHNOLOGIES; MOST PRODUCTIVE SCALE SIZE; PRODUCTION EFFICIENCY;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DECOMPOSITION;

TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 67349223255     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2008.11.015     Document Type: Article

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