The impact of environmental practices on firms' efficiency: The case of ICT-producing sectors

Operational Research

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 311-328

  Stiakakis, Emmanouil ^a   Fouliras, Panayotis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Data Envelopment Analysis; Efficiency; Environment; ICT; Performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350228400     PISSN: 11092858     EISSN: 18661505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12351-009-0035-9     Document Type: Article

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