A new slacks-based measure of Malmquist-Luenberger index in the presence of undesirable outputs

Omega (United Kingdom)

Volumn 51, Issue , 2015, Pages 29-37

  Arabi, Behrouz ^a   Munisamy, Susila ^a   Emrouznejad, Ali ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Directional distance function; Eco Efficiency change

Indexed keywords

BYPRODUCTS; EFFICIENCY; STEAM POWER PLANTS;

CHANGE-OVER TIME; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS MODELS; DESIRABLE OUTPUTS; DIRECTIONAL DISTANCE FUNCTION; ECO-EFFICIENCY; ECO-EFFICIENCY CHANGE; MALMQUIST INDICES; MALMQUIST-LUENBERGER INDICES; PRODUCTION PROCESS; PRODUCTIVITY CHANGES;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84907662271     PISSN: 03050483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.omega.2014.08.006     Document Type: Article

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