Frontier Analysis: A State-of-the-Art Review and Meta-Analysis

Journal of Travel Research

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 612-627

  Assaf, A George ^a   Josiassen, Alexander ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

^c RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

frontier analysis; future directions; meta analysis; review

Indexed keywords

FUTURE PROSPECT; RESEARCH METHOD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TOURISM;

EID: 84962769434     PISSN: 00472875     EISSN: 15526763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0047287515569776     Document Type: Article

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