Exploring the facilities management effective rate as a useful metric

Facilities

Volumn 24, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 18-30

  Chrusciel, Donald ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Performance measures

Indexed keywords

EID: 31144464210     PISSN: 02632772     EISSN: 02632772     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02632770610639170     Document Type: Article

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