Global and local scale characteristics in convex and nonconvex nonparametric technologies: a first empirical exploration

DOI10.1016/j.ejor.2016.10.030zbMath1394.90332OpenAlexW2537602972MaRDI QIDQ1751850

Kristiaan Kerstens, Giovanni Cesaroni, Ignace Van de Woestyne

Publication date: 25 May 2018

Published in: European Journal of Operational Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://lirias.kuleuven.be/handle/123456789/562077

zbMATH Keywords

data envelopment analysisfree disposal hullglobal returns to scalelocal returns to scale

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Management decision making, including multiple objectives (90B50) Production models (90B30) Special problems of linear programming (transportation, multi-index, data envelopment analysis, etc.) (90C08)

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