Measuring agility performance in fresh food supply chains: An ordinal two-stage data envelopment analysis

International Journal of Business Performance and Supply Chain Modelling

Volumn 4, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 206-231

  Khalili Damghani, K ^a   Taghavifard, M ^b   Olfat, L ^b   Feizi, K ^b  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b ALLAMEH TABATABA'I UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Agile supply chain; Asc; Ordinal data; Supply chain performance measurement; Two stage dea

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015275607     PISSN: 17589401     EISSN: 1758941X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBPSCM.2012.050390     Document Type: Article

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