A concept of optimal quality and an application

Total Quality Management and Business Excellence

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 243-255

  Kara, Ahmet ^a  

^a FATIH UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Optimal quality; Optimal quality quantity frontier

Indexed keywords

EID: 16644366595     PISSN: 14783363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14783360500054335     Document Type: Article

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