The relationship between quality improvement and firms' productivity in Malaysia

International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 347-364

  Zailani, Suhaiza ^a   Wahid, Nabsiah Abdul ^a   Premkumar, Rajagopal ^a   Sathasivam, Meenakshi ^b  

^a SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

^b Business Operations Wireless Business Unit   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Malaysia; Pharmaceutical firm; Productivity; Quality attributes; Semiconductor firm

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247512488     PISSN: 17466474     EISSN: 17466482     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJPQM.2007.012454     Document Type: Article

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