Can winners be losers? The case of the Deming prize for quality and performance among large Japanese manufacturing firms

Managerial Auditing Journal

Volumn 14, Issue , 1999, Pages 28-35

  Iaquinto, Anthony L ^a  

^a NANZAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Japan; Quality management

Indexed keywords

EID: 4644297056     PISSN: 02686902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02686909910245531     Document Type: Article

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