Performance measurement of police forces at the local level: A non-parametric mathematical programming approach

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 41, Issue 4 PART 2, 2014, Pages 1647-1653

  Aristovnik, Aleksander ^a   Seljak, Janko ^a   Mencinger, Jernej ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Data Envelopment Analysis; Performance measurement; Police management; Slovenia

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EXTERNAL FACTORS; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS; PUBLIC EMPLOYEES; PUBLIC RESOURCES; RELATIVE EFFICIENCY; SLOVENIA; THREE-STAGE DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; EFFICIENCY; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING;

LAW ENFORCEMENT;

EID: 84888337977     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2013.08.061     Document Type: Article

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