Providing a Pattern to Prioritize the Branches of Service Firms

Subject Areas : Business Strategy

Mohsen Miri ¹ , Manouchehr Omidvari ² , Ahmad Sadeghi ³

1 - Department of Industrial and Mechanical Engineering, College of Industrial Engineering, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran
2 - Department of Industrial and Mechanical Engineering, College of Industrial Engineering, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran
3 - Department of Industrial and Mechanical Engineering, College of Industrial Engineering, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran

Received: 2015-04-11 Accepted : 2015-06-11 Published : 2016-04-01

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