Smes' performance evaluation and optimization based on dea and cfi

Management and Production Engineering Review

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 57-64

  Shi, Zhao ^a   Takala, Josu ^a   Chen, Yang ^a   Muhos, Matti ^b   Poikkimaki, Jyrki ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VAASA   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^c VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

critical Factor Index (CFI); data envelopment analysis (DEA); optimization; performance evaluation; small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs)

Indexed keywords

EID: 85024097971     PISSN: 20808208     EISSN: 20821344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/mper-2013-0007     Document Type: Article

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