Uncovering the faultlines in quality management

Total Quality Management and Business Excellence

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 395-407

  Singh, Prakash J ^a   Smith, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Difficulties; Limitations; Problems; Quality management; Research issues

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645451447     PISSN: 14783363     EISSN: 14783371     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14783360500451648     Document Type: Review

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