Weight restrictions and free production in data envelopment analysis

Operations Research

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 426-437

  Podinovski, Victor V ^a   Bouzdine Chameeva, Tatiana ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b KEDGE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis (DEA); Production trade offs; Weight restrictions

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; POINT OF VIEWS; PRODUCTION OF; PRODUCTION THEORY; WEIGHT RESTRICTION;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84877854991     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1120.1122     Document Type: Article

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