The efficiency analysis of container port production using DEA panel data approaches

OR Spectrum

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 717-738

  Cullinane, Kevin ^a   Wang, Tengfei ^b  

^a EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNESCAP   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Container port; Contemporaneous analysis; Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA); Intertemporal analysis; Window analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953544436     PISSN: 01716468     EISSN: 14366304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00291-010-0202-7     Document Type: Article

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