Critical factors of total quality management and its effect on performance in health care industry: A Turkish experience

Problems and Perspectives in Management

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 220-234

  Dilber, Mustafa ^a   Bayyurt, Nizamettin ^b   Zaim, Selim ^a   Tarim, Mehves ^c  

^a FATIH UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b EMU Magusa   (Turkey)

^c MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Business performance; Canonical correlation; Total quality management

Indexed keywords

EID: 37349118982     PISSN: 17277051     EISSN: 18105467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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