Effects of Ownership on Hospital Efficiency in Germany

Business Research

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 115-145

  Tiemann, Oliver ^a   Schreyögg, Jonas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

data envelopment analysis; Germany; Keywords; non parametric technique; ownership; performance measurement; public hospitals; truncated regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891732380     PISSN: 21983402     EISSN: 21982627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03342707     Document Type: Article

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