Full Description
This book presents innovative operations research applications in business, specifically industrial engineering and its sub-disciplines. It investigates new perspectives in operations research and management science with regard to research methods, the research context, and industrial engineering, offering readers a broad range of new approaches to management problems. The book features the latest work of researchers who have worked with Professor Fusun Ulengin or built upon her work in their academic careers.
Written in honor of Prof. Ulengin, this book was edited by her former Ph.D. students, who are now experts in operations research, multiple criteria decision making, competitiveness, logistics, and supply chain management.
Prof. Ulengin's impact in academia is visible in the range of topics and methodologies featured in this book: Location and transportation problems, competitiveness of nations, food supply chains, debt collection, mathematical modelling, multiple criteria decision making, data envelopment analysis, random forests, and Bayesian networks.
Contents
Fair Assignment of Debt Cases to Legal Debt Collection Centers.- On the Principle of Lagrange in Optimization Theory and Its Application in Transportation and Location Problems.- Measuring Foreign Trade-Logistics Efficiency: A DEA Approach and the Malmquist Index.- Partially Non-discretionary Measures for Green Transportation Corridors Performance Index: A DEA Approach.- Competitiveness of Nations and Inequality-Adjusted Human Development: Evaluating the Efficiency of Nations Using DEA and Random Forest Classification.- Communicating Value in Healthcare Marketing from a Social Media Perspective.- Exploring the Third Wave of Feminism Through Hierarchical Clustering and Sentiment Analysis.- A Comparative Analysis of Forecasting Models on COVID-19.- An Exploration of the Influence of Innovations on Organizational Performance: A Dynamic Capabilities Perspective.- From E-Satisfaction to E-Repurchase Intention: How Is E-Repurchase Intention Mediated by E-Satisfaction and Moderated by Traditional Shopping Attitudes?.- The European Survey on OR/MS Education: Statistical Analysis Addressing the Lecturing Modules.- The Skill Wage Premium in the Turkish Labor Market from The Race Between Technology and Education Perspective.- The Status Granted to Organizational Identity Characteristics: An Application of the Best-Worst Method and Regression Analysis.- A Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Approach for Hazmat Transportation.- Strategic Multi-criteria Decision-Making Against Pandemics Using Picture and Spherical Fuzzy AHP and TOPSIS.- A Multi-Attribute Decision-Making Model for Hospital Location Selection.- Determining the Priority of University Technology Transfer Office Activities for Each Group of the Stakeholder Using SWARA Method.- Picture Fuzzy Extension of DEMATEL and its Usage in Educational Quality Evaluation.- A Contingency Approach to Multi-Criteria Decision-Making: A Search for Validity Through Rigor and Relevance.- Analyzing the Interaction of Renewable Energy Penetration with theWealth of Nations Using Bayesian Nets.- The Role of Logistics Management in Food Supply Chains.- A New Paradigm of Transport in the Wake of a New Age?.
