Process improvement, quality, and learning effects

Management Science

Volumn 44, Issue 11 PART 1, 1998, Pages 1517-1532

  Li, George ^a   Rajagopalan, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Learning Effects; Process Improvement; Productivity; Quality Costs; Quality Improvement

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROCESS ENGINEERING; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; PRODUCTIVITY; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

LEARNING EFFECTS; PROCESS IMPROVEMENT; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT;

TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0032208328     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.44.11.1517     Document Type: Article

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