Six Sigma and Total Quality Management: Different day, same soup?

International Journal of Six Sigma and Competitive Advantage

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 162-178

  Klefsjö, Bengt ^a   Bergquist, Bjarne ^a   Edgeman, Rick L ^b  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Quality; Quality Management; Six Sigma; Total Quality Management (TQM)

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747386507     PISSN: 14792494     EISSN: 14792753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJSSCA.2006.010107     Document Type: Article

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