The impact of supervisory monitoring on high-end retail sales productivity

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 173, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 25-37

  Banker, Rajiv D ^a   Lee, Seok Young ^b   Potter, Gordon ^c   Srinivasan, Dhinu ^d  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Sungshin Women's University   (South Korea)

^c 335 Statler Hall   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

DEA; Efficiency; Retail sector

Indexed keywords

EID: 76649116283     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-009-0572-x     Document Type: Article

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