Benchmarking as an action research process

Benchmarking

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 52-73

  Kyrö, Paula ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Action learning; Benchmarking; Research methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 23744450296     PISSN: 14635771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14635770410520302     Document Type: Article

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