Sustainable design performance evaluation with applications in the automobile industry: Focusing on inefficiency by undesirable factors

Omega (United Kingdom)

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 553-558

  Hwang, Shiuh Nan ^a   Chen, Chialin ^b   Chen, Yao ^c   Lee, Hsuan Shih ^d   Shen, Pei Di ^a  

^a MING CHUAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA); Efficiency; Environment; Sustainable design; Undesirable factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866977720     PISSN: 03050483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.omega.2012.07.002     Document Type: Article

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