DEA with undesirable factors

Modeling Data Irregularities and Structural Complexities in Data Envelopment Analysis

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 103-121

  Hua, Zhongsheng ^a   Bian, Yiwen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Eco efficiency; keyword: Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA); Non discretionary inputs; Undesirable factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052986504     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-71607-7_6     Document Type: Chapter

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