Adoption and persistence of TQM programmes - Case studies of five New Zealand organizations

Total Quality Management and Business Excellence

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 807-825

  Venkateswarlu, P ^a   Nilakant, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Case study; Implementing; New Zealand; Total Quality Management

Indexed keywords

EID: 27344442444     PISSN: 14783363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14783360500077310     Document Type: Article

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