Applications of Management Science

Product Description Applications of Management Science is a blind refereed series, published annually. It presents state-of-the-art studies in the application of management science to solve significant managerial decision-making problems. Volume 15 examines management science application 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, US airlines and Indian commercial banks. Section B focuses on cooperative public service advertising, supply chain strategies, optimal management of reverse supply chain and optimal response to multi-response models. Section C explores 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. Review Lawrence (School of Management, New Jersey Institute of Technology) and Kleinman (School of Business, Montclair State U.) present the 15th volume of an annual series that aims to disseminate applications of management science to managerial decision-making problems. This volume focuses on the application of management science to data envelopment analysis and efficiency, supply chain and quality applications, and multi-criteria and financial applications. Some examples of specific topics discussed in the 14 included papers are: benchmarking the operating efficiency of US airlines, cooperative public service advertising strategies for a supply chain system, multi-criteria performance measurement for public and private sector enterprises, and a meta-goal programming model for asset allocation of mutual funds under the mean absolute deviation. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. --Book News Inc. Portland, OR About the Author Kenneth Lawrence - New Jersey Institute of TechnologyGary Kleinman - Montclair State University