DEA models for identifying sensitive performance measures in container port evaluation

Maritime Economics and Logistics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 215-236

  Wu, Jie ^a   Yan, Hong ^b   Liu, John ^b  

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

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

container ports; critical measure; DEA; performance evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956698834     PISSN: 14792931     EISSN: 1479294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/mel.2010.6     Document Type: Article

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