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Data Envelopment Analysis: A Basis for Incentive Contracting

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In this article we want to show that the internal structure of service organizations with a department organization can be used to measure the output and to build a controlling system to achieve the changing of behavior of leading employees to more efficiency.

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Hoffmann, E., Hoffmann, F. (1997). Data Envelopment Analysis: A Basis for Incentive Contracting. In: Picot, A., Schlicht, E. (eds) Firms, Markets, and Contracts. Contributions to Economics. Physica-Verlag HD. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46988-6_13

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