An investigation into the costs and benefits of reliability of service

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Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 99-114

  Boronico, Jess S ^a  

^a MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making process; Management; Reliability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002246799     PISSN: 03050483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0483(97)00057-1     Document Type: Article

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