When does the ISO 9000 quality assurance standard lead to performance improvement? Assimilation and going beyond

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 352-363

  Naveh, Eitan ^a   Marcus, Alfred A ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERFORMANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STANDARDIZATION; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

ASSIMILATION; MANAGEMENT STANDARD; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT; QUALITY ASSURANCE STANDARD;

QUALITY ASSURANCE;

EID: 3943100720     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2004.830864     Document Type: Article

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