Entrepreneurs with glamour? DEA performance characterization of high-tech and older-established industries

Economic Modelling

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1146-1153

  Hung, Shiu Wan ^a   Wang, An Pang ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

High tech industry; Marketability and profitability; Old established industry; Performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860576988     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2012.04.003     Document Type: Article

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