An exploratory study of the reasons for the collapse of contemporary companies and their link with the concept of quality

Management Decision

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1342-1370

  Marwa, Simmy ^a   Zairi, Mohamed ^a  

^a BRADFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Business failures; Organizational behaviour; Organizational change; Quality; Quality management

Indexed keywords

EID: 54949102451     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740810911984     Document Type: Article

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