| Article ID: | iaor198895 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 34 |
| Issue: | 12 |
| Start Page Number: | 1507 |
| End Page Number: | 1511 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 1988 |
| Journal: | Management Science |
| Authors: | Fre R., Grosskopf S., Nuinkeu D. |
In this paper the authors introduce a piecewise parametric production model that may be used as a reference technology for efficiency gauging. They show that other piecewise reference technologies used in efficiency measuring are obtained as special cases of the present model.