On the limited value of Cost of Quality Models

Total Quality Management and Business Excellence

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 959-969

  Freiesleben, Johannes ^a,b  

^a Ringier AG   (Switzerland)

^b NONE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cost of quality; Economic evaluation of quality; Learning; Profit; Quality investments; Six Sigma; Technological progress

Indexed keywords

EID: 3543046743     PISSN: 14783363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14783360410001681908     Document Type: Article

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