Knowledge driven quality improvement

Management Science

Volumn 44, Issue 11 PART 2, 1998, Pages

  Mukherjee, Amit Shankar ^a   Lapré, Michael A ^a   Van Wassenhove, Luk N ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Learning by Experimentation; Organizational Learning; Quality; Technological Knowledge

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; PROCESS ENGINEERING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; VALUE ENGINEERING;

ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING; TECHNOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE;

TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0032208368     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.44.11.s35     Document Type: Article

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