Making an ideal decision-making unit using virtual network data envelopment analysis approach

International Journal of Business Performance Management

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 316-328

  Yousefi, Saeed ^a   Shabanpour, Hadi ^b   Saen, Reza Farzipoor ^b   Faramarzi, Gholam Reza ^b  

^a ALLAMEH TABATABA'I UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; DEA; DMU; Ideal decision making unit; Network data envelopment analysis; Relative efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907538876     PISSN: 13684892     EISSN: 17415039     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBPM.2014.065018     Document Type: Review

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