Estimating cost efficiency and the technology gap ratio using the metafrontier approach for Taiwanese international tourist hotels

Cornell Hospitality Quarterly

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 341-353

  Lin, Yi Hsing ^a  

^a NATIONAL QUEMOY UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

cost efficiency; international tourist hotel; metafrontier; stochastic cost frontier; technology gap ratio (TGR)

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960301539     PISSN: 19389655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1938965511403304     Document Type: Article

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