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Abadi, F., Sahebi, I., Arab, A., Alavi, A & Karachi, H. (2018). Application of best-worst method in evaluation of medical tourism development strategy.Decision Science Letters , 7(1), 77-86.
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Beladi, H., Chao, C.-C., Ee, M. S., & Hollas, D. (2015). Medical tourism and health worker migration in developing countries. Economic Modelling, 46, 391–396.
Chaghooshi, A., Arab, A., & Dehshiri, S. (2016). A fuzzy hybrid approach for project manager selection. Decision Science Letters, 5(3), 447-460.
Cormany, D., & Baloglu, S. (2011). Medical travel facilitator websites: An exploratory study of web page contents and services offered to the prospective medical tourist. Tourism Management, 32(4), 709–716.
Crooks, V. A., Turner, L., Snyder, J., Johnston, R., & Kingsbury, P. (2011). Promoting medical tourism to India: Messages, images, and the marketing of international patient travel. Social Science & Medicine, 72(5), 726–732.
Dalstrom, M. (2013). Medical travel facilitators: connecting patients and providers in a globalized world. Anthropology & Medicine, 20(1), 24–35.
Dereli, C. (2007). The developing environment for strategy formation in the smaller local authority. International Journal of Public Sector Management, 20(5), 366–379. http://doi.org/10.1108/09513550710772495
Ganguli, S., & Ebrahim, A. H. (2017). A qualitative analysis of Singapore’s medical tourism competitiveness. Tourism Management Perspectives, 21, 74–84.
Garcia, A. G., & Besinga, C. A. (2006). Challenges and opportunities in the Philippine medical tourism industry. The SVG Review, 41–55.
Ghaffari, S., Arab, A., Nafari, J., & Manteghi, M. (2017). Investigation and evaluation of key success factors in technological innovation development based on BWM. Decision Science Letters, 6(3), 295-306.
Kangas, B. (2010). Traveling for medical care in a global world. Medical Anthropology, 29(4), 344–362.
Kazemi, Z. (2007). Study of effective factors for attracting medical tourist in Iran. Research Paper Requirements for the MS Degree, Lulea University of Technology, Netherlands.
Khan, S., & Alam, M. S. (2014). Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: A potential destination for medical tourism. Journal of Taibah University Medical Sciences, 9(4), 257–262.
Mohaghar, A. , Sahebi, I. , Arab, A. (2017). Appraisal of humanitarian supply chain risks using best-worst method. International Journal of Social, Behavioral, Educational, Economic, Business and Industrial Engineering, 11(2), 309 - 314.
Rezaei, J. (2015a). Best-worst multi-criteria decision-making method. Omega, 53, 49–57.
Rezaei, J. (2015b). Best-worst multi-criteria decision-making method: Some properties and a linear model. Omega, 64, 126-130.
Rezaei, J., Nispeling, T., Sarkis, J., & Tavasszy, L. (2016). A supplier selection life cycle approach integrating traditional and environmental criteria using the best worst method. Journal of Cleaner Production, 135, 577–588.
Rezaei, J., Wang, J., & Tavasszy, L. (2015). Linking supplier development to supplier segmentation using Best Worst Method. Expert Systems With Applications, 42(23), 9152–9164.
Smith, P. C., & Forgione, D. A. (2007). Global outsourcing of healthcare: a medical tourism decision model. Journal of Information Technology Case and Application Research, 9(3), 19–30.
Stonehouse, G., & Pemberton, J. (2002). Strategic planning in SMEs – some empirical findings. Management Decision, 40(9).
Woodman, J. (2009). Patients beyond borders: Everybody’s guide to affordable, world-class medical travel. Healthy Travel Media.
Yüksel, İ., & Dağdeviren, M. (2007). Using the analytic network process (ANP) in a SWOT analysis – A case study for a textile firm. Information Sciences, 177(16), 3364–3382.