A survey of DEA applications

Omega (United Kingdom)

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 893-902

  Liu, John S ^a   Lu, Louis Y Y ^b   Lu, Wen Min ^c   Lin, Bruce J Y ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Citation analysis; Data envelopment analysis; Literature survey; Main path analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871752827     PISSN: 03050483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.omega.2012.11.004     Document Type: Article

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