Six Sigma and competitive advantage

Total Quality Management and Business Excellence

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 455-464

  De Mast, Jeroen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Competitive strategy; Quality improvement; Resource based strategy; Total quality management

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645726261     PISSN: 14783363     EISSN: 14783371     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14783360500528221     Document Type: Article

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