Quality management: Universal or context dependent?

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 383-404

  Sousa, Rui ^a,b   Voss, Christopher A ^a,b  

^a CBQF CENTRO DE BIOTECNOLOGIA E QUÍMICA FINA LABORATÓRIO ASSOCIADO   (Portugal)

^b LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contingency Research; Empirical Research; Manufacturing Strategy; Quality Management

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001696354     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2001.tb00083.x     Document Type: Article

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