Quality management practices and their impact on performance

International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 625-646

  Lakhal, Lassad ^a   Pasin, Federico ^b   Limam, Mohamed ^c  

^a Faculté de Droit et de Sciences Economiques de Sousse   (Tunisia)

^b HEC MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Modelling; Performance measurement (quality); Quality management

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745585318     PISSN: 0265671X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02656710610672461     Document Type: Article

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