A comparative analysis and review of national quality awards in Europe: Development of critical success factors

TQM Magazine

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 454-467

  Mavroidis, Vassilios ^a   Toliopoulou, Sophia ^b   Agoritsas, Constantine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b HELLENIC OPEN UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Business excellence model; Critical success factors; Europe; Quality awards; Total quality management

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRODUCT DESIGN; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

BUSINESS EXCELLENCE MODELS; CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS; QUALITY AWARDS; STRUCTURED SURVEYS;

TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 34548249538     PISSN: 0954478X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09544780710817874     Document Type: Article

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