Benchmarking Singapore's high-TQM maturity organisations

Benchmarking: An International Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 8-35

  Kin Chung, Woon ^a  

^a Singapore Productivity and Standards Board ^*  (Singapore)

Author keywords

Assessment; Benchmarking; Singapore; TQM

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242360347     PISSN: 14635771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14635770110383443     Document Type: Article

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