Assessing the Activeness of Online Economic Activity of Taiwan’s Internet Users: An Application of the Super-Efficiency Data Envelopment Analysis Model

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 433-451

  Chen, Chih Cheng ^a  

^a YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis (DEA); Digital divide; Online economic activity; Super efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84931072740     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-014-0690-y     Document Type: Article

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