Total quality management for sustainable development: Process based system models

Business Process Management Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 632-645

  Isaksson, Raine ^a  

^a GOTLAND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Process management; Stakeholder analysis; Sustainable development; Total quality management

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748712424     PISSN: 14637154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14637150610691046     Document Type: Article

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