Scale characterizations in a DEA directional technology distance function framework

DOI10.1016/S0377-2217(01)00389-7zbMath1037.90039MaRDI QIDQ1869693

Hirofumi Fukuyama

Publication date: 28 April 2003

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

zbMATH Keywords

returns to scaleData envelopment analysisscale elasticityMPSSdirectional technology distance functionscale efficiency indicator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sensitivity, stability, parametric optimization (90C31) Management decision making, including multiple objectives (90B50) Special problems of linear programming (transportation, multi-index, data envelopment analysis, etc.) (90C08)

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