Measuring satisfaction of crop insurance a modified American customer satisfaction model approach applied to Iranian Farmers

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

Volumn 5, Issue , 2013, Pages 19-27

  Yazdanpanah, Masoud ^a,c   Zamani, Gholam Hossein ^b   Hochrainer Stigler, Stefan ^c   Monfared, Nozar ^d   Yaghoubi, Jafar ^e  

^a Ramin University   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^d Agricultural Research   (Iran)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZANJAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Crop insurance satisfaction; Currently insured and Iran; Customer Satisfaction Index; Formerly insured

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887522241     PISSN: 22124209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2013.04.003     Document Type: Article

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