Total quality management and comprehensive change

EMJ - Engineering Management Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1993, Pages 6-10

  Lowe, Ernest ^b  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Change Management Center ^*  (United States)

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EID: 0006818789     PISSN: 10429247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10429247.1993.11414710     Document Type: Article

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