Efficiency models in data envelopment analysis: Techniques of evaluation of productivity of firms in a growing economy

Efficiency Models in Data Envelopment Analysis: Techniques of Evaluation of Productivity of Firms in a Growing Economy

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-245

  Sengupta, Jati ^a   Sahoo, Biresh ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b AMRITA SCHOOL OF BUSINESS   (India)

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230598171     Document Type: Book

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