Learning to compete: The value of internal benchmarking

Benchmarking

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 293-304

  Hyland, Paul ^a   Beckett, Ron ^b  

^a CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Reinvention Network   (Australia)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Improvement; Internal auditing; Learning

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MANUFACTURE; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS;

INTERNAL AUDITING;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 0242269853     PISSN: 14635771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14635770210429036     Document Type: Article

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