Efficient resource allocation via efficiency bootstraps: An Application to RandD project budgeting

Operations Research

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 729-741

  Chen, Chien Ming ^a   Zhu, Joe ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Decision making; programming: linear application; statistics: nonparametric; Organizational studies: productivity; Sampling

Indexed keywords

ALLOCATION APPROACH; DEA MODELS; DECISION MAKERS; EFFICIENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; EFFICIENCY MEASURE; EFFICIENT RESOURCE ALLOCATION; EVALUATION CRITERIA; INPUT-OUTPUT; INTEGRATED APPROACH; ORGANIZATIONAL STUDIES: PRODUCTIVITY; PROJECT BUDGETING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION DECISION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION PROBLEM; RISK EXPOSURE; SHADOW PRICE;

BUDGET CONTROL; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECONOMICS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RISK MANAGEMENT;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 79960503900     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1110.0920     Document Type: Article

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