Determination of a cause and effect decision making model for leisure farm's service quality in Taiwan

WSEAS Transactions on Business and Economics

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 73-86

  Lin, Zen Pin ^a   Wang, Ray ^a   Tseng, Ming Lang ^a  

^a MINGDAO UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL); Fuzzy logic; Service quality expectation

Indexed keywords

EID: 66749085023     PISSN: 11099526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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