Allocating fixed costs or resources and setting targets via data envelopment analysis

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 217, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 6349-6358

  Lin, Ruiyue ^a  

^a WENZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Efficiency; Fixed cost allocation; Resource allocation; Target setting

Indexed keywords

ALLOCATION PROBLEMS; DECISION MAKING UNIT; FEASIBLE SOLUTION; FIXED COST; FIXED COST ALLOCATION; FIXED TARGETS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; RESOURCES ALLOCATION; TARGET SETTING; ZHU'S APPROACH;

COSTS; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DATA HANDLING; DECISION MAKING; DEPRECIATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

EID: 79952008168     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2011.01.008     Document Type: Article

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