The price sensitivity of industrial buyers to softwood lumber product and service quality: an investigation of the U.S. wood treating industry

The value-based approach to defining quality was used to investigate the value perceptions of softwood lumber treaters in the United States. Conjoint measurement techniques were used to estimate the trade-offs treaters make between quality enhancing attributes and price. Five intrinsic lumber attrib...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reddy, Vijaya Shekher
Other Authors: Wood Science and Forest Products
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/39037
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08032007-142134/