Benchmarking firm performance

Benchmarking

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 693-710

  Dawkins, Peter ^a   Feeny, Simon ^b   Harris, Mark N ^c  

^a Victorian Department of Treasury and Finance   (Australia)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Benchmarking; Business development; Company performance; Profit; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 35148854662     PISSN: 14635771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14635770710834491     Document Type: Article

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