Environmental efficiency evaluation of industry in China based on a new fixed sum undesirable output data envelopment analysis

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 74, Issue , 2014, Pages 96-104

  Wu, Jie ^a   An, Qingxian ^a,b   Yao, Xin ^c   Wang, Bo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE TROYES   (France)

^c XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Competition; Data envelopment analysis; Efficiency evaluation; Fixed sum outputs; Undesirable output

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; EFFICIENCY; POLLUTION;

DECISION MAKING UNIT; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; EFFICIENCY EVALUATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DETERIORATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFICIENCY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS; FIXED SUM OUTPUTS; UNDESIRABLE OUTPUT;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 84901617868     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.03.054     Document Type: Article

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