A linear programming approach to efficiency evaluation in nonconvex metatechnologies

DOI10.1016/j.ejor.2018.01.013zbMath1403.90394OpenAlexW2784153650MaRDI QIDQ1754322

Mohsen Afsharian, Victor V. Podinovski

Publication date: 30 May 2018

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

Full work available at URL: https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/28051

zbMATH Keywords

data envelopment analysisreturns to scalemetafrontiernonconvex metatechnology

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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