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Original Articles

Why and How to Use Customer Opinions: A Quality-of-Life and Customer Satisfaction-Oriented Foundation for Performance-Based Decision-Making

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Pages 86-101 | Received 18 Feb 2013, Accepted 10 Dec 2013, Published online: 07 Feb 2014

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