Measurement of Returns to Scale and Damages to Scale for DEA-based operational and environmental assessment: How to manage desirable (good) and undesirable (bad) outputs?

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 211, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 76-89

  Sueyoshi, Toshiyuki ^a   Goto, Mika ^b  

^a NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Damages to Scale; DEA; Environmental assessment; Returns to Scale

Indexed keywords

DAMAGES TO SCALE; DEA; DEA MODELS; DESIRABLE OUTPUTS; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE; OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; RETURNS TO SCALE;

COMBINES; DAMAGE DETECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; RATING;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 79551502723     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2010.11.013     Document Type: Article

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