Benchmarking: Methods and tools for SME

Benchmarking

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 765-781

  Maire, Jean Luc ^a   Bronet, Vincent ^b   Pillet, Maurice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

^b TECUMSEH EUROPE ^*  (France)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Best practice; Small to medium sized enterprises

Indexed keywords

EID: 55649124074     PISSN: 14635771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14635770810915931     Document Type: Article

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