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Emerald is delighted to announce the publication of volume 14 of Applications of Management Science on Applications in Multi-criteria Decision Making, Data Envelopment Analysis, and Finance'.  This volume is edited by Kenneth D. Lawrence and Gary Kleinman.  Further details and a table of contents follow.

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Rebecca Forster

Assistant Commissioning Editor

Applications of Management Science volume 14

Applications in Multi-criteria Decision Making, Data Envelopment Analysis, and Finance

Editors: Kenneth D. Lawrence, Gary Kleinman
ISBN: 9780857244697 
Published: December 2010

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Synopsis

Applications of Management Science is a blind refereed serial publication published on an annual basis.  The objective of this research annual is to present state-of-the-art studies in the application of management science to the solution of significant managerial decision-making problems.  It significantly aids the dissemination of actual applications of management science in both the public and the private sectors.

Volume 14 is directed toward the application of management science to multi-criteria decision making, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and financial performance analyses.  This volume is arranged in three sections.  The first section focuses on multi-criteria decision making; the second focus is on the application of DEA to public schools, paper mills, nursing home quality, retailing, health care services, and performance efficiencies in cities.  The third section focuses on multi-dimensional performance of a national stock market and the effect of organizational structure on micro-financial institutions.

This volume will prove to be most valuable to those interested in financial performance measurements, productivity measurement and analysis, and management science, both as practitioners and researchers.

Table of Contents

Part A.  Multi-Criteria Applications

1.  Selected Multiobjective Methods for Multiperiod Portfolio Optimization by Mixed Integer Programming

Bartosz Sawik

2.  An Integrated Multiobjective Model for Two-Dimensional Warranty Policies

Amitava Mitra and Jayprakash G. Patankar

3.  Selecting Board of Directors for Social Responsible Firms Using a Multicriteria Decision Model

Elizabeth Cooper, Karen M. Hogan and Gerard T. Olson

4.  Data Envelopment Analysis Is Not Multiobjective Analysis

Ronald K. Klimberg, Kenneth D. Lawrence and Sheila M. Lawrence

5.  Multiple Criteria DEA with and without Weighting Restrictions

Robert Stawicki and Kenneth D. Lawrence

6.  A Multicriteria Approach to critical  Facility Security System Design

Patrick T. Hester and Sankaran Mahadevan

Part B. Data Envelopment Analysis

7.  Performance Comparisons of Missouri Public Schools Using data envelopment analysis

Walter A. Garrett, Jr. and N. K. Kwak

8.  DEA Studies on Comprehensive Efficiency of Output Allocation with an Application to Paper Mills along the Huai River

Feng Yang,  Yanfang Yuan,  Liang Liang and Zhimin Huang

9.  An optimized DEA-based Financial Strength Indicator of Stock Returns for U.S. Markets

Chanaka Edirisinghe and Xin Zhang

10.  Managing Nursing Home Quality Using DEA with Weight Restrictions

Daniel G. Shimshak

11.  Benchmarking Large U. S. Retailers Using a Data Envelopment Analysis Model

Rashmi Malhotra, D. K. Malhotra and C. Andrew Lafond

12.  Using DEA to Assess the Efficiency of Public Health Units in Providing Health Care Services

Rouselle F. Lavado, Leizel P. Lagrada and Brian C. Gozun

13.  Performance Improvement on Cross-Efficiencies and Applications to Competitive Advantages of Chinese Cities

Yong Zha, Liang Liang, Jie Wu and Zhimin Huang

C.  Financial Applications 

14.  Multidimensional Performance of Listed Companies at the Philippine Stock Exchange

Florence P.  Bogacia and Emilyn Cabanda

15.               The Impact of the Organizational Structure on the Performance of Microfinance Institutions Using data Envelopment Analysis

Komlan Sedzro, Mariam Keita and Tov Assogbavi

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