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Special issue on                                                                 
Efficiency and productivity: Data Envelopment Analysis

IMA Journal of Management Mathematics

Guest editors: Ali Emrouznejad and Rajiv Banker
Aston Business School  , Aston University , Birmingham, UK
Fox School of Business and Management, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA


IMAMAN Journal

The IMA Journal of Management Mathematics is a quarterly, peer reviewed journal that publishes papers in which Mathematics plays an important role in supporting decision making. For the special issue, we expect original research papers of high quality providing theoretical and/or practical application to real world problems. Both parametric and non-parametric papers will be considered. We especially welcome papers on the theory, methodology and application of Data Envelopment Analysis and econometric methods in performance management. Of particular interest are successful applications of productivity and efficiency analysis in the real world, for example in banking, healthcare, education, transportation, and so on. download PDF file

Manuscript Preparation
Please refer to the Journal Information and Author Guidelines for additional information on manuscript preparation at
http://imaman.oxfordjournals.org/ , All manuscripts should be submitted online, when submitting the manuscript please mark it as “DEA special” 

Important dates

31 October 2009    :

Submission Deadline
(early submission recommended, referee process starts once the paper received)

31 March 2009       :

Notification of status & acceptance of paper

31 July 2010            :

Revised manuscripts

31 October 2010    :

Final version of paper


Notes for Prospective Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Guest Editors:

Ali Emrouznejad (a.emrouznejad@aston.ac.uk )
Operations & Information Management Group
Aston Business School, Aston University
Birmingham B4 7ET ,
UK

Rajiv Banker (banker@temple.edu )
Merves Chair in Accounting and Information Technology
Fox School of Business and Management
Temple University,
Philadelphia, PA, USA