Environmental performance analysis of Chinese industry from a slacks-based perspective

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 228, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 65-80

  Bi, Gongbing ^a   Luo, Yan ^a   Ding, Jingjing ^a   Liang, Liang ^a  

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

Author keywords

Chinese industry; Data envelopment analysis (DEA); Environmental performance; Undesirable outputs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857125222     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-012-1088-3     Document Type: Article

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