Prelims
Applications of Management Science
ISBN: 978-1-78756-652-1, eISBN: 978-1-78756-651-4
ISSN: 0276-8976
Publication date: 20 August 2018
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(2018), "Prelims", Applications of Management Science (Applications of Management Science, Vol. 19), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. i-xi. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0276-897620180000019010
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APPLICATIONS OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
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APPLICATIONS OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
Series Editors: Kenneth D. Lawrence and Gary Kleinman
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APPLICATIONS OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE VOLUME 19
APPLICATIONS OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
EDITED BY
GARY KLEINMAN
Department of Accounting, Law, and Taxation, School of Business, Montclair State University, USA
KENNETH D. LAWRENCE
School of Management, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
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List of Contributors
Bandar A. Alkhayyal | Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia |
Mauro Falasca | East Carolina University, USA |
Surendra M. Gupta | Northeastern University, USA |
Patrick T. Hester | Old Dominion University, USA |
Ronald Klimberg | Saint Joseph’s University, USA |
John F. Kros | East Carolina University, USA |
Kenneth D. Lawrence | School of Management, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA |
Sheila M. Lawrence | Saint Joseph’s University, USA |
D. K. Malhotra | Philadelphia University, USA |
Rashmi Malhotra | Saint Joseph’s University, USA |
Elizabeth Mariotz | Philadelphia University, USA |
Amit Mitra | Auburn University, USA |
Dinesh R. Pai | Pennsylvania State University, USA |
Raymond R. Poteau | Philadelphia University, USA |
Samuel Ratick | Clark University, USA |
Bartosz Sawik | AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland; University of California at Berkeley, USA |
Ying Thaviphoke | Old Dominion University, USA |
Editorial Board
EDITORS-IN-CHIEF
Kenneth D. Lawrence
New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Gary Kleinman
Montclair State University, USA
SENIOR EDITORS
John Guerard
Anchorage, USA
Zhimin Huang
Adelphi University, USA
Douglas Jones
Rutgers University, USA
Ronald Klimberg
Saint Joseph’s University, USA
Stephen Kudbya
New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Sheila M. Lawrence
Rutgers University, USA
Virginia Miori
Saint Joseph’s University, USA
Daniel O’Leary
University of Southern California, USA
Dinesh R. Pai
The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Ramesh Sharda
Oklahoma State University, USA
Ralph Steuer
University of Georgia, USA
William Steward
College of William and Mary, USA
About the Editors
Gary Kleinman is Professor of Accounting at the Feliciano School of Business at Montclair State University. He has taught auditing and many other accounting courses for many years at both undergraduate and masters levels. He has a CPA license and obtained his PhD from Rutgers University, Newark, NJ. In addition, Dr Kleinman has an extensive research background, writing about auditing, auditor judgment, auditor independence, auditor behavior, and statistical sampling in auditing. In addition, Dr Kleinman has co-authored articles predicting medical costs, analyzing the underlying structures of Morningstar ruled mutual fund categories, and analyzing the relationship of macroeconomic variables to mutual fund performance. Some of his many research articles, on auditing and other topics, have appeared in the Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance; the Journal of International Accounting Research; Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting; Research in Accounting Regulation, Accounting, Economics and Law: A Convivium and the Handbook of Finance and Econometrics. In addition to writing many journal articles, Dr Kleinman has also co-authored three books on auditing.
Kenneth D. Lawrence is Professor of Management Science and Business Analytics at the Tuchman School of Management at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Dr Lawrence’s professional employment includes over 20 years of technical management experience with AT&T as Director, Decision Support Systems and Marketing Demand Analysis, Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc., Prudential Insurance, and the US Army in forecasting, marketing planning and research, statistical analysis, and operations research. Dr Lawrence is a Full Member of the Graduate Doctoral Faculty of Management at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the Department of Management Science and Information Systems and a Research Fellow in the Center for Supply Chain Management in the Rutgers Business School. Dr Lawrence’s research is in the areas of Management Science, Business Analytics, Time Series Forecasting, Econometric Forecasting, Data Mining, Data Envelopment Analysis, Multi-Criteria Decision Making, and Supply Chain Modeling. Dr Lawrence’s research work has been cited in 267 journals, including Computers and Operations Research, International Journal of Forecasting, Journal of Marketing, Sloan Management Review, Management Science, and Technometrics.
- Prelims
- Section A Managerial Applications of DEA
- Intercollegiate Athletics Efficiency: A Two-Stage DEA Approach
- An Empirical Analysis of the Performance of Residential Real Estate Investment Funds
- Evaluating the Impact of Advertising on Sales and Profitability in The Apparel Industry
- Productivity in the US Telecommunications Industry: A DEA Approach
- Section B Applications of Multicriteria Optimization
- A Linear Physical Programming Approach for Evaluating Collection Centers for End-of-Life Products
- Enterprise Warranty Programs for Two-dimensional Policies with Multiple Objectives
- Weighted-Sum Approach for Bi-objective Optimization of Fleet Size with Environmental Aspects
- Section C Applications of Management Decision-Making
- Chinese Drywall: A Systemic Decision-making Approach
- Decision Support Capabilities in Excel
- Index