Are small manufacturers failing the quality test?

Industrial Management and Data Systems

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 76-80

  Gulbro, Robert D ^a   Shonesy, Linda ^a   Dreyfus, Paul ^a  

^a ATHENS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY CONTROL;

QUALITY TESTS;

TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0033717668     PISSN: 02635577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02635570010319701     Document Type: Article

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