Relating company performance to staff perceptions: The impact of concurrent engineering on time to market

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 821-834

  Duffy, Vincent G ^a   Salvendy, Gavriel ^b  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; MARKETING; REENGINEERING;

STAFF PERCEPTIONS;

CONCURRENT ENGINEERING;

EID: 0033101549     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/002075499191544     Document Type: Article

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