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NOW PUBLISHED - Applications of Management Science volume 15

NOW PUBLISHED - Applications of Management Science volume 15, edited by Kenneth D. Lawrence and Gary Kleinman

Synopsis:
Applications of Management Science is a blind refereed series, published annually.  Its objective is to present state-of-the-art studies in the application of management science to the solution of significant managerial decision-making problems.  It aids the dissemination of actual applications of management science in both public and private sectors.

Volume 15 focuses on the application of management science to data envelopment analysis and efficiency, supply chain and quality applications, and multi-criteria and financial applications. Section A focuses on DEA to team performance, public higher education systems, U. S. airlines and Indian commercial banks. Section B focuses on cooperative public service advertising, strategies for supply chain, optimal management of reverse supply chain optimal response to multi-response models.  Section C focuses on multi-criteria measures of public and private enterprises, two dimensional warranty policy decision making, and creating teams. Section D focuses on financial applications, direct foreign investments, conditional values of risk in portfolio models, and asset allocations of mutual funds.

This volume will be most valuable to practitioners and researchers interested in productivity analysis, supply chain systems, multi-criteria applications and financial applications.
         
Table of Contents:

Section A: Data Envelopment Analysis and Efficiency

A Two-Stage DEA Approach with Feedback for Team Performance Evaluation
Yong Zha, Xixiang Ding, Liang Liang, Zhimin Huang (pp. 3 - 18)

Efficiency in Public Higher Education Systems: A Statewide Comparison Using Data Envelopment Analysis
Daniel G. Shimshak, Janet M. Wagner (pp. 19 - 40)

Benchmarking the Operating Efficiency of US Airlines
Rashmi Malhotra (pp. 41 - 60)

A DEA-Based Multidimensional Framework for Analyzing Indian Commercial Banks
Rashmi Malhotra, Raymond R. Poteau, D.K. Malhotra (pp. 61 - 85)

Section B: Supply Chain and Quality Applications

Cooperative Public Service Advertising Strategies for a Supply Chain System
Yi He, Qinglong Gou, Liang Liang, Zhimin Huang, Rakesh Gupta (pp. 89 - 107)

Optimal Management of Reverse Supply Chains with Sensor-Embedded End-of-Life Products
Onder Ondemir, Surendra M. Gupta (pp. 109 - 129)

Process Quality Management and Multiple Response Design Models for the Manufacture of Semiconductors
John F. Kros (pp. 131 - 149)

Optimal Selection of Contracts for Supply Chain Coordination Under Decision Hierarchy
Chanaka Edirisinghe, Bogdan Bichescu, Xinjie Shi (pp. 151 - 180)

Section C: Multi-Criteria Applications

Multi-Criteria Performance Measurement for Public and Private Sector Enterprises
Patrick T. Hester, Thomas J. Meyers (pp. 183 - 206)

Two-Dimensional Warranty Policies – Decision Making Under Multiple Objectives
Amitava Mitra, Jayprakash G. Patankar (pp. 207 - 227)

A Multiple Criteria Model to Creating Teams
Ronald K. Klimberg, George P. Sillup, Kevin Boyle, Ira Yermish (pp. 229 - 248)

Section D: Financial Applications

An Evaluation of Country Risk in Assessing Direct Foreign Investment
Karen M. Hogan, Amy F. Lipton, Gerard T. Olson (pp. 251 - 276)

Conditional Value-at-Risk Vs. Value-at-Risk to Multi-Objective Portfolio Optimization
Bartosz T. Sawik (pp. 277 - 305)

A Meta-Goal Programming Model for Asset Allocation of Mutual Funds Under the Mean Absolute Deviation
Kenneth D. Lawrence, Dinesh R. Pai, Sheila M. Lawrence (pp. 307 - 313)

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