To make it 'Total': Quality management over subcultures

Total Quality Management and Business Excellence

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1093-1108

  Kekäle, Tauno ^a   Fecikova, Ingrid ^b   Kitaigorodskaia, Natalia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VAASA   (Finland)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF KO ICE   (Slovakia)

^c VORONEZH STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process; Change; Cultures; Subcultures; TQM

Indexed keywords

EID: 5644294835     PISSN: 14783363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1478336042000255479     Document Type: Review

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