Developing and implementing a selection model for bedding chain retail store franchisee using Delphi and Fuzzy AHP

Quality and Quantity

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 275-290

  Hsu, Pi Fang ^a   Chen, Bi Yu ^a  

^a YUANPEI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bedding; Chain retail store; Delphi; Franchising; Fuzzy analytic hierarchy process

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847410133     PISSN: 00335177     EISSN: 15737845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11135-006-9004-z     Document Type: Article

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