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Network Data Envelopment Analysis

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Performance evaluation is an important task in management, to better understand the past accomplishments of a production unit and plan for its future development. The objective is to understand either how far this unit can be expected to increase its output with the current amount of input, or how much input can be saved while producing the current level of output by simply increasing its efficiency.

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  1. Department of Industrial and Information Management, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

    Chiang Kao

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Kao, C. (2017). Introduction. In: Network Data Envelopment Analysis. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 240. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31718-2_1

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