Requisitely holistic ISO 9000 audit leads to continuous innovation/improvement

Cybernetics and Systems

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 363-378

  Pivka, Marjan ^a   Mulej, Matjaz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COSTS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

DIGITAL DISSERTATIONS; FULL-TEXT DATABASES; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT (TQM); VALUE-ADDED AUDITING;

QUALITY ASSURANCE;

EID: 3042692231     PISSN: 01969722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01969720490443372     Document Type: Review

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