A virtual case benchmarking scheme for vendors' performance assessment

Benchmarking

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 61-80

  Lau, Henry C W ^a   Lau, Peter K H ^a   Fung, Richard Y K ^b   Chan, Felix T S ^b   Ip, Ralph W L ^b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Corporate strategy; Decision support systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 18844362901     PISSN: 14635771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14635770510582916     Document Type: Article

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