Performance measures in English small and medium enterprises: Survey results

Benchmarking

Volumn 13, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 120-134

  Sousa, Sérgio D ^a,b   Aspinwall, Elaine M ^a   Rodrigues, A Guimarães ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Balanced scorecard; England; Performance measures; Small to medium sized enterprises; Total quality management

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644555890     PISSN: 14635771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14635770610644628     Document Type: Article

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