Measuring Eco-Inefficiency: A New Frontier Approach
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Measuring Eco-Inefficiency: A New Frontier Approach
Growing social concerns over the environmental externalities associated with business activities are pushing firms to identify activities that create economic value with less environmental impact and to become more eco-efficient. Over the past two decades, researchers have increasingly used frontier efficiency models to evaluate productive efficiency in the presence of undesirable outputs, such...
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عنوان ژورنال: Operations Research
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0030-364X,1526-5463
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1120.1094