Self-assessment against business excellence models: A critique and perspective

Total Quality Management and Business Excellence

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1287-1300

  Williams, R ^a   Bertsch, B ^a   Van Der Wiele, A ^a   Van Iwaarden, J ^a   Dale, B ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Excellence quality models; Quality management; Self assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845621039     PISSN: 14783363     EISSN: 14783371     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14783360600753737     Document Type: Review

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