Measuring firm performance: Bayesian estimates with good and bad outputs

Journal of Business Research

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1249-1256

  Assaf, A George ^a   Josiassen, Alexander ^b,c   Gillen, David ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

^c RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Airport; Bayes; Efficiency; Performance; Resources; Shadow price

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897611805     PISSN: 01482963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2013.04.005     Document Type: Article

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