Pushing the DEA research envelope

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-7

  Avkiran, Necmi K ^a   Parker, Barnett R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b Pfeiffer University   (United States)

Author keywords

Advancing research; Data envelopment analysis; Gap identification; Problematization

Indexed keywords

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; RESEARCH WORK;

EID: 70350523671     PISSN: 00380121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2009.06.001     Document Type: Article

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