The rhetoric and reality of total quality management

Administrative Science Quarterly

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 602-636

  Zbaracki, Mark J ^a  

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EID: 0032220665     PISSN: 00018392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2393677     Document Type: Article

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