Slack free MEA and RDM with comprehensive efficiency measures

Omega

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 475-483

  Asmild, Mette ^a   Pastor, Jesús T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Comprehensive efficiency measures; DEA; Directional distance functions; Efficiency analysis; MEA; RDM; Slack free models

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSIVE EFFICIENCIES; COMPREHENSIVE EFFICIENCY MEASURE; DEA; DIRECTIONAL DISTANCE FUNCTION; EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS; EFFICIENCY MEASURE; FREE MODEL; MULTI-DIRECTIONAL EFFICIENCY ANALYSE; RANGE DIRECTIONAL MODEL; SLACK FREE MODEL;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 77952550037     PISSN: 03050483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.omega.2009.12.004     Document Type: Article

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