Sustainable development of improvement activities - The long-term operation of a suggestion scheme in a Swedish company

Total Quality Management

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 945-969

  Rapp, Cecilia ^a   Eklund, Jörgen ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 0036841591     PISSN: 09544127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0954412022000017049     Document Type: Article

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