Effects of quality management according to ISO 9000: A Swedish study of the transit to ISO 9000:2000

Total Quality Management and Business Excellence

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1021-1042

  Lundmark, Erik ^a   Westelius, Alf ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Consultant; Documentation; Effects; ISO 9000; ISO 9000:2000; Process; Quality management; Sweden

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751537221     PISSN: 14783363     EISSN: 14783371     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14783360600748000     Document Type: Article

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