Driving improvement opportunities in the food processing industry through benchmarking

International Journal of Process Management and Benchmarking

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 352-369

  Jain, Rakesh ^a   Yadav, Om Prakash ^b  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b North Dakota State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Change process; Continuous improvement; Food processing industry; Process management

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846456272     PISSN: 14606739     EISSN: 1741816X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJPMB.2006.011333     Document Type: Article

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