Eco-efficiency measurement and material balance principle: an application in power plants Malmquist Luenberger Index

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 255, Issue 1-2, 2017, Pages 221-239

  Arabi, Behrouz ^a   Doraisamy, Susila Munisamy ^a   Emrouznejad, Ali ^b   Khoshroo, Alireza ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c YASOUJ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Data Envelopment Analysis; Eco efficiency; Malmquist Luenberger Index; Material Balance Principle; Slacks based model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84952658749     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-015-1970-x     Document Type: Article

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