Adoption of ISO 9000 quality assurance standards by South African agribusiness firms

Agribusiness

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 295-307

  Turner, Christopher R ^a   Ortmann, Gerald F ^a   Lyne, Michael C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

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EID: 33750204609     PISSN: 07424477     EISSN: 15206297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1520-6297(200022)16:3<295::AID-AGR3>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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