Deriving the DEA frontier for two-stage processes

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 202, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 138-142

  Chen, Yao ^a   Cook, Wade D ^b   Zhu, Joe ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis (DEA); Efficiency; Frontier; Intermediate measure; Two stage

Indexed keywords

DEA MODELS; DECISION MAKING UNIT; FRONTIER; FRONTIER POINT; INTERMEDIATE MEASURE; OVERALL EFFICIENCY; TWO-STAGE; TWO-STAGE PROCESS; WELL YIELD;

DECISION MAKING; LINEAR PROGRAMMING;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 70349728468     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2009.05.012     Document Type: Article

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