Guidelines for reporting productivity studies - A review of the reproducibility of data envelopment analysis in the service sector

International Journal of Services and Operations Management

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 407-425

  Becker, Jörg ^a   Beverungen, Daniel ^a   Breuker, Dominic ^a   Dietrich, Hanns Alexander ^a   Rauer, Hans Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; DEA; Ethical guidelines; Good practice; Operations research; Philosophy of OR; Reproducibility; Scientometrics; Service science

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885077923     PISSN: 17442370     EISSN: 17442389     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJSOM.2013.056796     Document Type: Review

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