Beyond the quality of service: Exploring the evaluation criteria of airlines

Industrial Engineering and Management Systems

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 221-230

  Wang, Ray ^a  

^a Hung Kung University   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Decision Making trail and evaluation laboratory (dematel); Evaluation criteria; Quality of service

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923248677     PISSN: 15987248     EISSN: 22346473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7232/iems.2014.13.2.221     Document Type: Article

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