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A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2021.
Special Issue Editors
Interests: statistics; time series; data envelopment analysis; humanitarian logistics; social networks
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Special Issue aims to explore how efficiency analysis strategies and tools can provide efficient management solutions for new or existing challenges in sustainability. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a well-known methodology used to measure relative efficiency among a group of decision-making units. This allows identifying a production possibility frontier composed by the units in possession of better practices (in reference to the production process), that may be used in the definition of operational goals for their non-efficient counterpart.
The collection of papers in the Special Issue will provide theoretical insights and empirical evidence from around the world on how companies, organizations, and services can manage their production models that can be sustained over time without depleting its resources or harming the environment. Examples can be derived from identifying the best practices in conscious production models providing a rational use of economic resources that allows, from the use of the minimum resources (means, matter, energy, etc.), the maximization of benefits while giving the entire population the possibility of accessing a good standard of living and having the same opportunities.
Considering the above, this Special Issue looks for outstanding research and development results, case studies, and review papers in topics that include but are not limited to the following:
- Time series analysis
- Transportation problems and statistics
- Time series and data envelopment analysis
Dr. Clara Simon de Blas
Dr. Ana Garcia Sipols
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1900 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- sustainability
- data envelopment analysis
- economic sustainability
- environmental sustainability
- new technologies
- transportation sustainability