Profit efficiency under a directional technology distance function approach

Managerial Finance

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 276-296

  Koutsomanoli Filippaki, Anastasia ^a   Margaritis, Dimitris ^b   Staikouras, Christos ^c  

^a Ministry of Economy and Finance   (Greece)

^b Faculty of Business and Law   (New Zealand)

^c ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Banking; Eastern Europe; Profit; Resource efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015687799     PISSN: 03074358     EISSN: 17587743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03074350910931780     Document Type: Article

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