Allocating fixed resources and setting targets using a common-weights DEA approach

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 631-640

  Hosseinzadeh Lotfi, Farhad ^a   Hatami Marbini, Adel ^b   Agrell, Per J ^b   Aghayi, Nazila ^c   Gholami, Kobra ^a  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b LOUVAIN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (Belgium)

^c ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Common set of weights; Data envelopment analysis; Frontier analysis; Resource allocation; Target setting

Indexed keywords

ALLOCATION MECHANISM; ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; COMMON SET OF WEIGHTS; DECISION MAKERS; DECISION MAKING UNIT; DUAL WEIGHTS; ECONOMIC THEORIES; FRONTIER ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE INPUTS; MULTIPLE OUTPUTS; NONPARAMETRIC APPROACHES; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; ORGANIZATIONAL MANAGEMENT; POST EVALUATIONS; REFERENCE SET; TARGET SETTING; THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; GAME THEORY; PROFITABILITY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 84872450611     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2012.12.006     Document Type: Article

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