Legal issues in benchmarking

Benchmarking

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 528-537

  Boulter, Louise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Business excellence; Intellectual property; Knowledge management; Legal decisions

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; PRODUCTIVITY; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS; EXOGENOUS ENTITIES;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 0346902135     PISSN: 14635771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14635770310505166     Document Type: Review

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