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Pasiouras, F., Zopounidis, C. (2008). Multicriteria Methods for Mergers and Acquisitions . In: Floudas, C., Pardalos, P. (eds) Encyclopedia of Optimization. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-74759-0_409
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