The economic effects of quality improvement

Total Quality Management and Business Excellence

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 915-922

  Freiesleben, Johannes ^a,b  

^a Ringier AG   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Costs of poor quality; Price; Profitability; Quality improvement; Quality investments

Indexed keywords

EID: 27344436248     PISSN: 14783363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14783360500077419     Document Type: Article

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