Subject Areas : International Journal of Finance, Accounting and Economics Studies

mansour nouri ¹ , Mehrdad Hosseini Shakib ² , Abbas Khamseh ³

1 - Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Industrial Management, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran
2 - Department of Industrial Management, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran
3 - Department of Industrial Management, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran

Received: 2024-07-30 Accepted : 2025-01-18 Published : 2025-02-02

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