Optimising proportional weights as a secondary goal in DEA cross-efficiency evaluation

International Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 234-245

  Maddahi, Reza ^a   Jahanshahloo, Gholam Reza ^a   Lotfi, Farhad Hosseinzadeh ^a   Ebrahimnejad, Ali ^b  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cross efficiency evaluation; Data envelopment analysis; DEA; Decision making units; DMUs; Efficiency ranking; Proportional weights

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893254825     PISSN: 17457645     EISSN: 17457653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJOR.2014.058953     Document Type: Article

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