Assessing Intellectual Capital efficiency and productivity: An application to the Italian yacht manufacturing sector

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 7255-7261

  Costa, Roberta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Data Envelopment Analysis; Intangible assets; Intellectual Capital; Malmquist Productivity Index

Indexed keywords

DATA ENVELOPMENT; IMPLEMENTED STRATEGY; INTANGIBLE ASSETS; INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL; MALMQUIST PRODUCTIVITY INDEX; MANUFACTURING SECTOR;

BENCHMARKING; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; INDUSTRY; MANUFACTURE; PRODUCTIVITY; YACHTS;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84857658506     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2012.01.099     Document Type: Article

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