Internal manufacturing strategy audit: The first step in integrated strategic benchmarking

Benchmarking

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 580-595

  Meybodi, Mohammad ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY KOKOMO   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditing; Benchmarking; Strategic manufacturing

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747124308     PISSN: 14635771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14635770610690429     Document Type: Article

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