Role of benchmark technology in sustainable value analysis an application to Finnish dairy farms

Agricultural and Food Science

Volumn 18, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 302-316

  Kuosmanen, Timo ^a,b   Kuosmanen, Natalia ^a,b  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Eco efficiency; Environmental performance; Productive efficiency analysis; Stochastic frontier estimation; Sustainable development; Sustainable value analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 73349108092     PISSN: 14596067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.23986/afsci.5953     Document Type: Article

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