An empirical study of quality function deployment on company performance

International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 345-366

  Herrmann, Andreas ^a   Huber, Frank ^b   Algesheime, René ^c   Tomczak, Torsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Company performance; Economic performance; Linear structural equation modeling; Quality function deployment; Total quality management

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646359963     PISSN: 0265671X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02656710610657576     Document Type: Article

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