Managerial efficiency and hospitality industry: The Portuguese case

Applied Economics

Volumn 43, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 2895-2905

  Barros, Carlos Pestana ^a   Botti, Laurent ^b,c   Peypoch, Nicolas ^c   Solonandrasana, Bernardin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b MONTPELLIER BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAPPING; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SERVICE SECTOR;

PORTUGAL;

EID: 79960923131     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840802600145     Document Type: Article

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