Simulation and Analytical Techniques Applied to Management and Economics

Using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) within the diversity and inclusion project: in this context, performance evaluation will be made among companies from varied sectors. Since firms have heterogeneous characteristics, DEA cannot be utilized directly, and an innovative method will be used to solve this trouble. Moreover, the relationship between performance in companies and diversity will be investigated. Diversity will be assessed based on factors such as age, gender and ethnic groups. For this purpose, a database in Portugal will be adopted. The legal procedures claimed to reach the database have been applied and the result is awaited. From this work, a journal paper is intended to be published in Q1.
Exerting benchmarking for environmental topics like climate change, and sustainable management of terrestrial ecosystems: yet a primary literature search has been already arranged for this aim. One of the major challenges for this plan is to define appropriate inputs and outputs for the assumed system, and the other is to find a case study based on real data. In the future, it is likely to carry out works under this topic for a master thesis of a student.
Besides benchmarking, methods such as discrete event simulation are supposed to be used in this context.

For the 2030 Agenda:
Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
Goal 5. Achieve gender equality.
Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss seek requirements for the development of organizations and indirectly society.
Works in progress about benchmarking are within the scope of goals 13 and 15 and the ones within the scope of the diversity and inclusion project are within the scope of goals 4 and 5.