Total quality management: Practice and outcomes in the largest US firms

Employee Relations

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 26-41

  Mohrman, Susan Albers ^a   Tenkasi, Ramkrishnan V ^a   Lawler, Edward E ^a   Ledford, Gerald E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0001961723     PISSN: 01425455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01425459510086866     Document Type: Article

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