Two-Stage Network Structures with Undesirable Intermediate Outputs Reused: A DEA Based Approach

Computational Economics

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 455-477

  Wu, Jie ^a   Zhu, Qingyuan ^a   Chu, Junfei ^a   Liang, Liang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

China; Data envelopment analysis; Decision making units; Undesirable intermediate outputs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941417280     PISSN: 09277099     EISSN: 15729974     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10614-015-9498-3     Document Type: Article

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