Benchmarking and learning organizations: Ranking methods to identify "best in class"

Benchmarking

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 621-630

  Laise, Domenico ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Learning organizations; Research methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 22344457397     PISSN: 14635771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14635770410566528     Document Type: Article

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