Objective identification of technological returns to scale for data envelopment analysis models

DOI10.1016/j.ejor.2017.10.016zbMath1403.90395OpenAlexW2766801292MaRDI QIDQ1754135

Joseph C. Paradi, Mohammadreza Alirezaee, Ensie Hajinezhad

Publication date: 30 May 2018

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2017.10.016

zbMATH Keywords

data envelopment analysis (DEA)returns to scale (RTS)angles methodtechnological returns to scale (TRTS)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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