Quality audit roles and skills: Perceptions of non-financial auditors and their clients

Journal of Operations Management

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 126-147

  Power, Damien ^a   Terziovski, Milé ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Auditing; Continuous improvement; Quality management; Survey

Indexed keywords

COST ACCOUNTING; DATA ACQUISITION; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SURVEYS;

AUDITING; CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT; QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 33845333352     PISSN: 02726963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jom.2006.02.005     Document Type: Article

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