Attaining Flexible Stability by Integrating Total Quality Management and Socio-technical Systems Theory

Organization Science

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 59-70

  Manz, Charles C ^a   Stewart, Greg L ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Self managed Teams (SMTs); Socio technical Systems (STS); Total Quality Management (TQM)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031534662     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.8.1.59     Document Type: Article

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