Skill enhancement efforts and firm performance in the Brazilian chemical industry: An exploratory canonical correlation analysis - Research note

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 149-155

  Lima, Marcos A M ^a   Resende, Marcelo ^b   Hasenclever, Lia ^b  

^a IBMEC Business School   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Performance; Quality certification; Skill enhancement

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; COMPETITION; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; JOB ANALYSIS; PERSONNEL TRAINING; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

PROFITS; QUALITY CERTIFICATION;

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS;

EID: 0346778566     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-5273(03)00101-4     Document Type: Article

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