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Johnes, Jill; Portela, Maria and Thanassoulis, Emmanuel (2017). Efficiency in education. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 68 (4), pp. 331-338.

Thanassoulis, Emmanuel; Silva Portela, Maria and Graveney, Michael (2016). Identifying the scope for savings at inpatient episode level:an illustration applying DEA to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. European Journal of Operational Research, 255 (2), 570–582.

Maziotis, Alexandros; Saal, David S.; Thanassoulis, Emmanuel and Molinos-Senante, María (2015). Profit, productivity and price performance changes in the water and sewerage industry:an empirical application for England and Wales. Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy, 17 (4), pp. 1005-1018.

Silva Portela, Maria Conceição A. and Thanassoulis, Emmanuel (2014). Economic efficiency when prices are not fixed:disentangling quantity and price efficiency. Omega, 47 , pp. 36-44.

Thanassoulis, Emmanuel; Silva Portela, Maria C.A. and Graveney, Mike (2014). Using DEA to estimate potential savings at GP units at medical specialty level. Socio-economic planning science, 48 (1), pp. 38-48.

Petridis, Konstantinos; Malesios, Chrisovalantis; Arabatzis, Garyfallos and Thanassoulis, Emmanuel (2013). Efficiency analysis of forestry journals:suggestions for improving journals' quality. Journal of Informetrics, 7 (2), pp. 505-521.

Giraleas, Dimitris; Emrouznejad, Ali and Thanassoulis, Emmanuel (2012). Productivity change using growth accounting and frontier-based approaches:evidence from a Monte Carlo analysis. European Journal of Operational Research, 222 (3), pp. 673-683.

Thanassoulis, Emmanuel; Silva Portela, Maria C.A. and Graveney, Michael (2012). Estimating the scope for savings in referrals and drug prescription costs in the general Practice units of a UK primary care trust. European Journal of Operational Research, 221 (2), pp. 432-444.

Thanassoulis, Emmanuel (2012). Benchmarking with DEA, SFA, and R. Interfaces, 42 (3), pp. 321-323.

Emrouznejad, Ali; Amin, Gholam R.; Thanassoulis, Emmanuel and Anouze, Abdel L. (2010). On the boundedness of the SORM DEA models with negative data. European Journal of Operational Research, 206 (1), pp. 265-268.

Emrouznejad, Ali; Anouze, Abdel L. and Thanassoulis, Emmanuel (2010). A semi-oriented radial measure for measuring the efficiency of decision making units with negative data, using DEA. European Journal of Operational Research, 200 (1), pp. 297-304.

Emrouznejad, Ali; Podinovski, Victor V. and Thanassoulis, Emmanuel (2009). Data envelopment analysis : theory and applications. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 60 (11), pp. 1467-1468.

Johnes, Geraint; Johnes, Jill and Thanassoulis, Emmanuel (2008). An analysis of costs in institutions of higher education in England. Studies in Higher Education, 33 (5), pp. 527-549.

Podinovski, Victor V. and Thanassoulis, Emmanuel (2007). Improving discrimination in data envelopment analysis:some practical suggestions. Journal of Productivity Analysis, 28 (1-2), pp. 117-126.

Thanassoulis, Emmanuel and Podinovski, Victor V. (2007). Special issue on:applications and application-motivated developments in productivity analysis. Journal of Productivity Analysis, 28 (1-2), pp. 1-2.

Silva Portela, Maria C.A. and Thanassoulis, Emmanuel (2006). Zero weights and non-zero slacks:different solution to the same problem. Annals of Operations Research, 145 (1), pp. 129-147.

Emrouznejad, Ali and Thanassoulis, Emmanuel (2005). A mathematical model for dynamic efficiency using data envelopment analysis. Applied Mathematics and Computation, 160 (2), pp. 363-378.

Cooper, W.W.; Seiford, Lawrence M.; Thanassoulis, Emmanuel and Zanakis, Stelios H. (2004). DEA and its uses in different countries. European Journal of Operational Research, 154 (2), pp. 337-344.

Maniadakis, Nikolaos and Thanassoulis, Emmanuel (2004). A cost Malmquist productivity index. European Journal of Operational Research, 154 (2), pp. 396-409.

Silva Portela, Maria C.A.; Castro Borges, Pedro and Thanassoulis, Emmanuel (2003). Finding closest targets in non-oriented DEA models:the case of convex and non-convex technologies. Journal of Productivity Analysis, 19 (2-3), pp. 251-269.

Thanassoulis, Emmanuel and Silva Portela, Maria C.A. (2002). School outcomes:sharing the responsibility between pupil and school. Education Economics, 10 (2), pp. 183-207.

Silva Portela, Maria C.A. and Thanassoulis, Emmanuel (2001). Decomposing school and school-type efficiency. European Journal of Operational Research, 132 (2), pp. 357-373.

Thanassoulis, Emmanuel; Sotiros, Dimitrios; Koronakos, Grigorios and Despotis, Dimitrios Assessing the cost-effectiveness of university academic recruitment and promotion policies. European Journal of Operational Research, in pre ,

Silva Portela, Maria C.A. and Thanassoulis, Emmanuel Comparative efficiency analysis of Portuguese bank branches. European Journal of Operational Research, 177 (2), pp. 1275-1288.

Afsharian, Mohsen; Ahn, Heinz and Thanassoulis, Emmanuel A DEA-based incentives system for centrally managed multi-unit organisations. European Journal of Operational Research, 259 (2), pp. 587-598.

Portela, M.C.A.S. and Thanassoulis, Emmanuel Developing a decomposable measure of profit efficiency using DEA. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 58 (4), pp. 481-490.

Thanassoulis, Emmanuel; Dey, Prasanta Kumar; Petridis, Konstantinos; Goniadis, Ioannis and Georgiou, Andreas C. Evaluating higher education teaching performance using combined analytic hierarchy process and data envelopment analysis. Journal of the Operational Research Society, Early ,

Thanassoulis, Emmanuel and Dunstan, P. Guiding schools to improved performance using data envelopment analysis:an illustration with data from a local education authority. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 45 (11), pp. 1247-1262.

Thanassoulis, Emmanuel; Kortelainen, Mika and Allen, Rachel Improving envelopment in Data Envelopment Analysis under variable returns to scale. European Journal of Operational Research, 218 (1), pp. 175-185.

Silva Portela, Maria C.A. and Thanassoulis, Emmanuel Malmquist indexes using a geometric distance function (GDF):application to a sample of Portuguese bank branches. Journal of Productivity Analysis, 25 (1-2), pp. 25-41.

Portela, Maria C.A.S. and Thanassoulis, Emmanuel Malmquist-type indices in the presence of negative data:an application to bank branches. Journal of Banking and Finance, 34 (7), pp. 1472-1483.

Emrouznejad, Ali and Thanassoulis, Emmanuel Measurement of productivity index with dynamic DEA. International Journal of Operational Research, 8 (2), pp. 247-260.

Maziotis, Alexandros; Saal, David; Thanassoulis, Emmanuel and Molinos-Senante, María Price-cap regulation in the English and Welsh water industry:a proposal for measuring productivity performance. Utilities Policy, In pre ,

Silva Portela, Maria C.A. and Thanassoulis, Emmanuel Profitability of a sample of Portuguese bank branches and its decomposition into technical and allocative components. European Journal of Operational Research, 162 (3), pp. 850-866.

Thanassoulis, Emmanuel; Shiraz, Rashed Khanjani and Maniadakis, Nikolaos A cost Malmquist productivity index capturing group performance. European Journal of Operational Research, 241 (3), pp. 796-805.

Book Section

Thanassoulis, Emmanuel; de Witte, Kristof; Johnes, Jill; Johnes, Geraint; Karagiannis, Giannis and Portela, Conceição S. (2016). Applications of data envelopment analysis in education. IN: Data envelopment analysis. Zhu, Joe (ed.) International Series in Operations Research and Management Science . New York (US): Springer.

Emrouznejad, Ali and Thanassoulis, Emmanuel (2013). Introduction to performance improvement management software (PIM-DEA). IN: Handbook of research on strategic performance management and measurement using data envelopment analysis. Osman, Ibrahim H.; Anouze, Abdel Latef and Emrouznejad, Ali (eds) IGI Global.

Wang, Yucan; Greasley, Andrew and Thanassoulis, Emmanuel (2011). Combining ERP systems with enterprise 2.0. IN: ENTERprise information systems. Cruz-Cunha, Maria M.; Varajão, João; Powell, Philip and Martinho, Ricardo (eds) Communications in computer and information science . Berlin (DE): Springer.

Thanassoulis, Emmanuel; Portela, Maria C.S. and Despić, Ozren (2008). Data Envelopment Analysis:the mathematical programming approach to efficiency analysis. IN: The measurement of productive efficiency and productivity growth. Fried, Harold O.; Lovell, C. A. Knox and Schmidt, Shelton S. (eds) New York, NY (US): Oxford University Press.

Wang, Yucan; Greasley, Andrew and Thanassoulis, Emmanuel Adopting ERP with informality in order to foster both efficiency and flexibility operations. IN: Proceedings of Production and Operations Management (POM) 2011 conference. UNSPECIFIED.

Horncastle, Alan; Jevons, David; Dudley, Paul and Thanassoulis, Emmanuel Efficiency analysis of delivery officers in the postal sector using stochastic frontier and data envelopment analyses. IN: Liberalization of the postal and delivery sector. Crew, Michael A. and Kleindorfer, Paul R. (eds) Advances in regulatory economics series . Edward Elgar.

Wang, Yucan; Greasley, Andrew and Thanassoulis, Emmanuel How to achieve complementary benefits of efficiency and flexibility in using ERP systems? IN: Proceedings of the British Academy of Management (BAM) 2011 conference. UNSPECIFIED.

Thanassoulis, Emmanuel; Portela, Maria C. and Allen, Rachel Incorporating value judgments in DEA. IN: Handbook on data envelopment analysis. Cooper, William W.; Seiford, Lawrence M. and Zhu, Joe (eds) International series in operations research & management science (2nd). Norwell, MA (US): Kluwer.

Portela, Maria C.A.S. and Thanassoulis, Emmanuel Malmquist indexes using a geometric distance function (GDF). IN: Data envelopment analysis and performance management. Emrouznejad, Ali and Podinovski, Victor (eds) Warwick University.

Monograph

Emrouznejad, Ali; Anouze, Abdel L. and Thanassoulis, Emmanuel (2008). A DEA model for units with negative data. Working Paper. Aston University, Birmingham (UK).

Portela, Maria C.A.S. and Thanassoulis, Emmanuel (2008). A circular Malmquist-type index for measuring productivity. Working Paper. Aston University, Birmingham (UK).

Johnes, Geraint; Johnes, Jill; Thanassoulis, Emmanuel; Lenton, Pam and Emrouznejad, Ali (2005). An exploratory analysis of the cost structure of Higher Education in England. Technical Report. DfES publications, Nottingham (UK).

de Witte, Kristof; Thanassoulis, Emmanuel and Simpson, Gary Assessing pupil and school performance by non-parametric and parametric techniques. Working Paper. Aston University, Birmingham (UK).

Saal, David; Maziotis, Alexandros and Thanassoulis, Emmanuel Price performance, excess cost and profitability indexes and their application to determining the effectiveness of price cap regulation in the water industry. Working Paper. Aston University, Birmingham (UK). (Unpublished)

Maziotis, Alexandros; Saal, David and Thanassoulis, Emmanuel Regulatory price performance, excess cost indexes and profitability:how effective is price cap regulation in the water industry? Working Paper. Aston University, Birmingham (UK).

Conference or Workshop Item

Emrouznejad, Ali and Thanassoulis, Emmanuel (2009). Performance improvement management software for advanced users. IN: 23rd European Conference on Operational Research. 2009-07-05 - 2009-07-08. (Unpublished)

Kourogiorgas, Georgios; Despic, Ozren; Thanassoulis, Emmanuel and Wong, Veronica (2008). A case study on services upgrading prediction. IN: 30th Annual Marketing Science Conference. 2008-06-12 - 2008-06-14.

Emrouznejad, Ali and Thanassoulis, Emmanuel Managing performance of organisational units with PIMsoft:a new DEA software. IN: 23rd European Conference on Operational Research. 2009-07-05 - 2009-07-08.

Book

Morris, Clare and Thanassoulis, Emmanuel (2007). Essential maths:for business and management. Palgrave Macmillan.

Thanassoulis, Emmanuel (2001). Introduction to the theory and application of data envelopment analysis:a foundation text with integrated software. Springer.

Morris, Clare and Thanassoulis, Emmanuel (1994). Essential mathematics:a refresher course for business and social studies. Palgrave Macmillan.