Performance measurement of two-stage production systems with undesirable factors by data envelopment analysis

Journal of Applied Sciences

Volumn 11, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 3515-3519

  Ashrafi, A A ^a   Jaafar, A B ^b  

^a SEMNAN UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Efficiency; Intermediate product additive form; Two stage; Undesirable factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 83455205968     PISSN: 18125654     EISSN: 18125662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/jas.2011.3515.3519     Document Type: Article

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