The direct and indirect impact of product quality on financial performance: A causal model

Total Quality Management and Business Excellence

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1087-1099

  Lakhal, Lassaad ^a   Pasin, Federico ^b  

^a Faculté de Droit et des Sciences Economiques et Politiques de Sousse   (Tunisia)

^b HEC MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Empirical research; Financial performance; Product quality; Structural equation modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 52949120374     PISSN: 14783363     EISSN: 14783371     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14783360802264293     Document Type: Article

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