TABLE OF CONTENTS

Volume 60, Issue 11 (November 2009)

Part Special Issue: Data Envelopment Analysis: Theory and Applications
Guest Editors: Ali Emrouznejad, Victor Podinovski and Emmanuel Thanassoulis

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Editorial

Data envelopment analysis: theory and applications

Ali Emrouznejad, Victor V Podinovski and Emmanuel Thanassoulis

J Oper Res Soc 60: 1467-1468; doi:10.1057/jors.2009.73

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Special Issue Papers

Exploring the use of DEA for formative evaluation in primary diabetes care: An application to compare English practices

C A F Amado and R G Dyson

J Oper Res Soc 60: 1469-1482; advance online publication, February 4, 2009; doi:10.1057/jors.2008.160

A DEA analysis of risk, cost, and revenues in insurance

M M Segovia-Gonzalez, I Contreras and C Mar-Molinero

J Oper Res Soc 60: 1483-1494; advance online publication, May 20, 2009; doi:10.1057/jors.2009.32

Returns to scale pattern and efficient firm size in the public accounting industry: an empirical investigation

H Chang, C Galantine and A Thevaranjan

J Oper Res Soc 60: 1495-1501; advance online publication, June 10, 2009; doi:10.1057/jors.2009.60

A network-based approach for increasing discrimination in data envelopment analysis

J S Liu, W-M Lu, C Yang and M Chuang

J Oper Res Soc 60: 1502-1510; advance online publication, May 13, 2009; doi:10.1057/jors.2009.35

The hyperbolic-oriented efficiency measure as a remedy to infeasibility of super efficiency models

A L Johnson and L F McGinnis

J Oper Res Soc 60: 1511-1517; advance online publication, July 29, 2009; doi:10.1057/jors.2009.71

On some generalization of the DEA models

V E Krivonozhko, O B Utkin, M M Safin and A V Lychev

J Oper Res Soc 60: 1518-1527; advance online publication, July 1, 2009; doi:10.1057/jors.2009.64

A fast algorithm for determining some characteristics in DEA

M Soleimani-damaneh

J Oper Res Soc 60: 1528-1534; advance online publication, July 22, 2009; doi:10.1057/jors.2009.72

Farrell revisited–Visualizing properties of DEA production frontiers

F R Førsund, S A C Kittelsen and V E Krivonozhko

J Oper Res Soc 60: 1535-1545; advance online publication, March 25, 2009; doi:10.1057/jors.2008.185

A geometrical approach for generalizing the production possibility set in DEA

J H Dulá

J Oper Res Soc 60: 1546-1555; advance online publication, May 20, 2009; doi:10.1057/jors.2009.42

Multiobjective data envelopment analysis

Y-W Chen, M Larbani and Y-P Chang

J Oper Res Soc 60: 1556-1566; doi:10.1057/jors.2009.92

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Theoretical Papers

Nonlinear inputs and diminishing marginal value in DEA

W D Cook, F Yang and J Zhu

J Oper Res Soc 60: 1567-1574; advance online publication, December 3, 2008; doi:10.1057/jors.2008.121

Supplier selection by the pair of nondiscretionary factors-imprecise data envelopment analysis models

R Farzipoor Saen

J Oper Res Soc 60: 1575-1582; advance online publication, January 28, 2009; doi:10.1057/jors.2008.154

Does knowledge management matter? Assessing the performance of electricity distribution districts based on slacks-based data envelopment analysis

L-C Chen, W-M Lu and C Yang

J Oper Res Soc 60: 1583-1593; advance online publication, March 4, 2009; doi:10.1057/jors.2008.182

Estimating indirect allocative inefficiency and productivity change

H Fukuyama and W L Weber

J Oper Res Soc 60: 1594-1608; advance online publication, June 24, 2009; doi:10.1057/jors.2009.62

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Book Selection

Book Selection

J Oper Res Soc 60: 1609-1611; doi:10.1057/jors.2009.65