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

DOI10.1016/J.EJOR.2016.10.030MaRDI QIDQ1751850zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Giovanni Cesaroni, Kristiaan Kerstens, 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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