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Research Article

Assessing the influence of exogenous and quality of service variables on water companies´ performance using a true-fixed stochastic frontier approach

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Pages 682-691 | Received 27 Feb 2018, Accepted 15 Oct 2018, Published online: 16 Nov 2018

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