Benchmarking the competitiveness of industrial sectors: Application in textiles

International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 603-622

  Bilalis, Nikolaos ^a   Alvizos, Emmanuel ^a   Tsironis, Lukas ^a   Van Wassenhove, Luk ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b INSEAD   (France)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Business excellence; Europe; Textile industry

Indexed keywords

EID: 34848923362     PISSN: 17410401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17410400710823642     Document Type: Article

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