The impact of culture on managerial perceptions of quality

International Journal of Cross Cultural Management

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 213-234

  Yavas, Burhan F ^a,b   Rezayat, Fahimeh ^a,b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Competitive advantage; Cross cultural perceptions; Multinomial logistic regression; Organizational and societal level analysis; Quality improvement

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947364499     PISSN: 14705958     EISSN: 17412838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/14705958030032005     Document Type: Article

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