Olympics ranking and benchmarking based on cross efficiency evaluation method and cluster analysis: the case of Sydney 2000

International Journal of Enterprise Network Management

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 377-392

  Wu, Jie ^a   Liang, Liang ^a   Wu, Dexiang ^a   Yang, Feng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

benchmarking; cross efficiency; data envelopment analysis; DEA; Olympics; ranking

Indexed keywords

EID: 73249136724     PISSN: 17481252     EISSN: 17481260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJENM.2008.020640     Document Type: Article

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