Dursun Balkan

Dursun Balkan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Turk Hava Kurumu University. His research focuses on Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), productivity measurement, and smart manufacturing maturity assessment.

• Specializes in Network DEA and Common Set of Weights methodologies
• Conducts comparative analyses of public hospitals and manufacturing sectors
• Applies PROMETHEE and ARIMA models to evaluate technological maturity and economic trends

His recent work includes a groundbreaking 2024 study on smart manufacturing maturity in glass balcony production, demonstrating how adverse sectors can adopt Industry 4.0 principles. He has extensively analyzed Turkey's manufacturing productivity against EU benchmarks using time-series data.

Key contributions include a novel entropy-based approach for determining common weights in Network DEA (2022), and pandemic-era logistics turnover forecasting studies (2023) showing Turkey's shift from land to air transportation.