Measuring the sustainability and resilience of blood supply chains

RK Matin, M Azadi, RF Saen - Decision Support Systems, 2022 - Elsevier
Blood supply chains (BSCs) play a strategic and crucial role in healthcare systems
especially in unexpected situations such as earthquakes and pandemic outbreaks …

Bounded and discrete data and Likert scales in data envelopment analysis: application to regional energy efficiency in China

Y Chen, WD Cook, J Du, H Hu, J Zhu - Annals of operations research, 2017 - Springer
In data envelopment analysis (DEA), it is usually assumed that all data are continuous and
not restricted by upper and/or lower bounds. However, there are situations where data are …

Developing environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategies on evaluation of municipal waste disposal centers: A case of Mexico

F Gholian-Jouybari, M Khazaei, RF Saen, R Kia… - Chemosphere, 2024 - Elsevier
Waste disposal systems are crucial components of environmental management, and
focusing on this sector can contribute to the development of various other sectors and …

Evaluating sustainably resilient supply chains: A stochastic double frontier analytic model considering Netzero

M Azadi, RK Matin, A Emrouznejad… - Annals of Operations …, 2022 - research.aston.ac.uk
In era of reglobalization, sustainably resilient supply chains (SCs) are imperative in
corporations to improve performance and meet stockholders' expectations. However …

A mixed-integer slacks-based measure data envelopment analysis for efficiency measuring of German university hospitals

M Zarrin - Health care management science, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Standard Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) models consider continuous-valued
and known input and output statuses for measures. This paper proposes an extended …

The impact of big fund on the operational efficiency of semiconductor companies: Corporate social responsibility as a non-economic output

X Yao, J Zhao - International Journal of Production Economics, 2024 - Elsevier
This study contributes to research on the total factor operational efficiency of the
semiconductor company considering corporate social responsibility (CSR) by proposing a …

The COVID-19 pandemic and the performance of healthcare supply chains

M Azadi, TCE Cheng, RK Matin, RF Saen - Annals of Operations Research, 2024 - Springer
Recent pandemic outbreaks, including the COVID-19 and SARS, have revealed that supply
chains (SCs) are unable to respond to such disasters. To mitigate the destructive impacts …

Evaluating NBA player performance using bounded integer data envelopment analysis

Y Chen, Y Gong, X Li - INFOR: Information Systems and …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Data envelopment analysis (DEA) assumes that data are continuous. However, there are
situations where data are integers and bounded. For example, in basketball games, the total …

Estimation of the workload boundary in socio-technical infrastructure management systems: The case of Belgian railroads

TG Topcu, K Triantis, B Roets - European Journal of Operational Research, 2019 - Elsevier
Infrastructure systems are large-scale complex socio-technical systems that rely on humans
for their safety critical decision-making activities. In the case of railroad networks …

Selective proportionality and integer-valued data in DEA: an application to performance evaluation of high schools

Z Moghaddas, A Amirteimoori, R Kazemi Matin - Operational Research, 2022 - Springer
Conventional data envelopment analysis (DEA) models are often extended for constant or
variable returns to scale assumptions based on the under-investigated technology. It is …