Developing an output-oriented super slacks-based measure model with an application to third-party reverse logistics providers

Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis

Volumn 18, Issue 5-6, 2011, Pages 267-277

  Azadi, Majid ^a   Saen, Reza Farzipoor ^b  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Chance constrained data envelopment analysis (ccdea); Output oriented super sbm; Third party reverse logistics (3pl) providers

Indexed keywords

EID: 85013370963     PISSN: 10579214     EISSN: 10991360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mcda.483     Document Type: Article

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