About the International Society for
Efficiency and Productivity Analysis

The mission of the Society is to extend, mutatis mutandis, the General Scope of the Journal of Productivity Analysis http://www.springer.com/journal/11123).  The Society promotes the study of theoretical and applied research addressing the measurement, analysis, and improvements in productivity and its components, particularly innovation and efficiency.  The Society supports and fosters research that uses theory and empirical techniques to measure productivity and provide business managers and public policy experts strategies to enhance productivity. The Society’s broad scope spans economics, management science, operations research, and business and public administration. A partial list of topics includes productivity theory, organizational design, index number theory, and related foundations of productivity analysis, computational methods employed in productivity analysis, and empirical studies based on data at all levels of aggregation.
The Society facilitates the following activities:

1. Members are provided annual free electronic subscriptions to the Journal of Productivity Analysis (https://link.springer.com/journal/11123).
2. Members are given discounted registration fees for ISEaPA-sponsored international conferences.
3. Information about upcoming productivity and efficiency conferences.
4. Access to job filings from potential academic and nonacademic employers.
5. Short courses that speak to our research interests.
6. Announcements (and calls for submissions) concerning special issues of the Journal of Productivity Analysis, ISEaPA’s affiliated journal.
7. Calls for small grant submission to encourage workshops and collaborative efforts across     research groups and across research centers that focus on productivity and efficiency.
8. Information about consulting possibilities, and international and domestic calls for proposals on productivity and efficiency research.
9. ISEaPA Working Papers Series linked to RePEc.

The Society is formally linked to our three international meetings in terms of planning and advertising and takes on a role coordinating smaller ad hoc productivity conferences and new larger international ones.