An empirical study of software process maturity, TQM practices and organizational characteristics in Taiwanese companies

Total Quality Management and Business Excellence

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1091-1102

  Chen, Shiang Heng ^a   Chen, Houn Gee ^b   Yen, David C ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capability Maturity Model (CMM); Information Systems (IS); International Standards Organization (ISO); Software Engineering Institute (SEI); System Development Life Cycle (SDLC); Total Quality Management (TQM)

Indexed keywords

EID: 29144495598     PISSN: 14783363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14783360500235819     Document Type: Article

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