Total quality management, strategic orientation and organizational performance: The case of Spanish companies

Total Quality Management and Business Excellence

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 303-323

  Fuentes, M Mar Fuentes ^a,b   Montes, F Javier Lloréns ^a   Fernández, Luis M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b Campus de Cartuja S/n   (Spain)

Author keywords

Co alignment; Organizational performance; Strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645461403     PISSN: 14783363     EISSN: 14783371     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14783360500451358     Document Type: Review

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