The Sustainability and Evolution of Quality Improvement Programmes - An Australian Case Study

Total Quality Management and Business Excellence

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 205-220

  Prajogo, Daniel I ^a   Sohal, Amrik S ^b  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Quality management; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0842307536     PISSN: 14783363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1478336032000149036     Document Type: Article

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