Adoption of a quality assurance scheme and its effect on firm performance: A study of Greek firms implementing ISO 9000

Total Quality Management

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 827-841

  Tsekouras, Kostas ^a   Dimara, Efthalia ^a   Skuras, Dimitris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

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EID: 0036710975     PISSN: 09544127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0954412022000010163     Document Type: Article

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