Hybrid methods for ranking DMUs that combine performance and improvement trend over successive periods

International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 269-287

  Hadad, Yossi ^a   Keren, Baruch ^a   Hanani, Michael Z ^a  

^a SCE Shamoon College of Engineering   (Israel)

Author keywords

AHP; Analytical hierarchical process; Data envelopment analysis; DEA; Malmquist productivity index; MPI; Performance measurement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885063986     PISSN: 17427967     EISSN: 17427975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJLSM.2013.056751     Document Type: Article

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