Benchmarking airports from a managerial perspective

Omega (United Kingdom)

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 442-458

  Adler, Nicole ^a,b   Liebert, Vanessa ^c   Yazhemsky, Ekaterina ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Air transport; Benchmarking; Business policy; DEA

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867014302     PISSN: 03050483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.omega.2012.02.004     Document Type: Article

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