Efficiency of Iranian forest industry based on DEA models

Journal of Forestry Research

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 759-765

  Limaei, Soleiman Mohammadi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUILAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

harvesting sub process; Iranian forest industries; marketing sub process; traditional DEA model; two stage DEA model

Indexed keywords

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; FOREST; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HARVESTING; MARKETING; SOFTWARE;

IRAN; KELARDASHT; MAZANDARAN; NEKA;

EID: 84887480372     PISSN: 1007662X     EISSN: 19930607     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11676-013-0371-8     Document Type: Article

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