Benchmarking intangible assets: Enhancing teamwork performance using self-assessment

Benchmarking

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 571-583

  Castka, Pavel ^a   Bamber, Christopher J ^b   Sharp, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b OLC (Europe) Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Intangible assets; Self assessment; Team working

Indexed keywords

EID: 23744487788     PISSN: 14635771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14635770410566483     Document Type: Review

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