Data Envelopment Analysis: The Mathematical Programming Approach to Efficiency Analysis

The Measurement of Productive Efficiency and Productivity Change

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Thanassoulis, Emmanuel ^a   Portela, Maria C S ^b   Despić, Ozren ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CBQF CENTRO DE BIOTECNOLOGIA E QUÍMICA FINA LABORATÓRIO ASSOCIADO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

DEA; Decision making unit; Efficiency measures; Inputs; Outputs; Value judgements

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920089370     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195183528.003.0003     Document Type: Chapter

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