Designed to provide a systematic introduction to DEA and its uses as a multifaceted tool for evaluating problems in a variety of contexts. This volume reviews the basic principles taught in the authors' successful textbook, "Data Envelopment Analysis." This package includes the book in a CD-ROM...

This handbook covers DEA topics that are extensively used and solidly based. The purpose of the handbook is to (1) describe and elucidate the state of the field and (2), where appropriate, extend the frontier of DEA research. It defines the state-of-the-art of DEA methodology and its uses. This...

"Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has grown has grown into a powerful quantitative, analytical tool for measuring and evaluating performance. It has been successfully applied to a host of different entities engaged in a wide variety of activities in many complex, multi-layered contexts worldwide....

Reshaping the Organization for the Twenty First Century -- Environmental Scanning: Strategic and Functional Approaches -- Baby Boom and Baby Bust: Corporate Response to the Demographic Challenge of 1990-2010 -- Work Place Challenges for Managers in the Twenty-first Century -- Forces Reshaping...

Section 1: Introduction -- Implementation of Strategic Human Resource Planning Applications -- Section 2: General Issues of Strategic Human Resource Planning -- Human Resource Management and Strategie Change: Challenges in Two Deregulated Industries -- Formulating Human Resource Strategies in a...

We present a framework, decision models, and supporting methods to improve government's decisions on a class of intervention problems. The example used is on natural gas shortages. We provide three decision models that move progressively from regulated market mechanisms as a means of gas...

The invited contributions which make up this book are vigorous and relevant papers across a range of interconnected topics in management science. This volume consists of papers which were presented in a conference held at the IC2 Institute of the University of Texas at Austin in October of 1987....