New Perspectives in Operations Research and Management Science

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

Y. Ilker Topcu is a Professor of Decision Sciences at the Industrial Engineering Department of Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Turkey. He visited Leeds University Business School from 1998 through 1999 as a visiting researcher and received his Ph.D. degree in Engineering Management from ITU in 2000. His Ph.D. thesis, titled "Integrated decision aid model for multi-attribute problem solving", was supervised by Prof. Ülengin. More recently, he held a visiting professor position at the Katz Business School, University of Pittsburgh, USA, from 2018 through 2019. Dr. Topcu has been an executive committee member of the International Society of Multiple Criteria Decision Making since 2015. His research interests include multiple criteria decision making, decision analysis, and OR/MS. He has published several journal papers, book chapters, and conference proceedings. His latest books are edited volumes entitled "Operations Research Applications in Health Care Management" in 2018and "Multiple Criteria Decision Making - Beyond the Information Age" in 2021.

Sule Önsel Ekici is a Professor at the Industrial Engineering Department of Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Turkey. She graduated from Istanbul Technical University (Management Faculty, Department of Industrial Engineering) in 1993 and received her MSc. Degree in 1995 and a Ph.D. degree in 2002 from the same university. Her Ph.D. thesis, titled "A Dynamic Scenario Analysis with the Help of Artificial Neural Networks", was supervised by Prof. Ülengin. Her research topics are decision support systems, multicriteria decision making, neural networks, scenario analysis, cognitive and Bayesian maps. She mainly focuses on modelling complex systems such as transportation, logistics systems, and socio-economic systems. Her refereed articles have appeared in a variety of journals, including Transport Policy, Transportation Research Part A and Part C, Expert Systems with Applications, Socio-Economic