Opening the "black box" of efficiency measurement: Input allocation in multioutput settings

Operations Research

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1148-1165

  Cherchye, Laurens ^a   De Rock, Bram ^b   Dierynck, Bart ^c   Roodhooft, Filip ^a   Sabbe, Jeroen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY-BASED COSTING SYSTEMS; DECISION-MAKING UNITS; DISCRIMINATORY POWER; EFFICIENCY EVALUATION; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; INPUT ALLOCATIONS; MANAGERIAL IMPLICATIONS; MULTIPLE INPUTS AND MULTIPLE OUTPUTS;

COST ACCOUNTING; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; MANAGERS;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84887251351     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.2013.1185     Document Type: Article

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