Measuring the relative efficiency of IC design firms using the directional distance function and a meta-frontier approach

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 881-891

  Hsiao, Bo ^a   Chern, Ching Chin ^a   Yu, Ming Miin ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Directional distance function; Group frontier; IC design firm; Meta frontier; Performance evaluations

Indexed keywords

DIRECTIONAL DISTANCE FUNCTION; GROUP-FRONTIER; IC DESIGNS; META-FRONTIER; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION;

EFFICIENCY; FUNCTION EVALUATION; INDUSTRY;

DESIGN;

EID: 84865462222     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2012.05.017     Document Type: Conference Paper

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