The effects of corporate governance on airline performance: Production and marketing efficiency perspectives

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 529-544

  Lu, Wen Min ^a   Wang, Wei Kang ^b   Hung, Shiu Wan ^c   Lu, En Tzu ^b  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Corporate governance; Managerial decision making matrix; Truncated regression; Two stage Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)

Indexed keywords

AIR TRANSPORTATION; COMMERCE; DECISION MAKING; MARKETING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PRODUCTION EFFICIENCY;

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE; DECISION MAKING MATRIX; MANAGERIAL DECISION MAKING; MANAGERIAL DECISION-MAKING MATRIX; MARKETING EFFICIENCIES; OPERATING PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE; PRODUCTION EFFICIENCY; TRUNCATED REGRESSION; TWO-STAGE DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSE;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS;

AIRLINE INDUSTRY; CORPORATE STRATEGY; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; MARKETING; PERCEPTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 83555178497     PISSN: 13665545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2011.09.003     Document Type: Article

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