Degree of scale economies and congestion: a unified DEA approach

DOI10.1016/S0377-2217(03)00370-9zbMath1056.90094MaRDI QIDQ596289

Biresh K. Sahoo, Kaoru Tone

Publication date: 10 August 2004

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0377-2217(03)00370-9

zbMATH Keywords

DEA; Congestion; Degree of scale economies; Scale elasticity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

90B50: Management decision making, including multiple objectives

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