Best practice benchmarking: A route to competitiveness?

Journal of Air Transport Management

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 105-112

  Francis, Graham ^a   Hinton, Matthew ^a   Holloway, Jacky ^a   Humphreys, Ian ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aircraft maintenance; Airline management; Benchmarking

Indexed keywords

AIR TRANSPORTATION; COMPETITIVENESS; TRANSPORTATION ECONOMICS;

EID: 0033117464     PISSN: 09696997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-6997(99)00005-8     Document Type: Article

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