Organisational quality - A cognitive approach to quality management

TQM Magazine

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 180-187

  Yamin, Shahid ^a   Gunasekaran, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Customer orientation; Innovation; Organizational culture; Quality management

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROCESS ENGINEERING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; VALUE ENGINEERING;

COGNITIVE METHOD; ORGANIZATIONAL QUALITY;

TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0032681681     PISSN: 0954478X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09544789910262752     Document Type: Article

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