Strategic corporate sustainability performance of Chinese state-owned listed firms: A meta-frontier generalized directional distance function approach

Social Science Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 300-310

  Yu, Yanni ^a   Choi, Yongrok ^a   Zhang, Ning ^a,b  

^a Inha University   (South Korea)

^b JIANGXI UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese state owned listed firms; Corporate sustainability performance; Data envelopment analysis; Generalized directional distance function; Meta frontier approach

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940448544     PISSN: 03623319     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soscij.2013.07.010     Document Type: Article

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