Guiding human organisations to climb the spiral stages of performance improvements

Total Quality Management and Business Excellence

Volumn 19, Issue 7-8, 2008, Pages 709-718

  Dervitsiotis, Kostas N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Business landscape fitness; Innovation; Leadership; Organisational design; Quality of relationships; Systemic thinking

Indexed keywords

EID: 48749109169     PISSN: 14783363     EISSN: 14783371     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14783360802159386     Document Type: Article

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