ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 standards: A projection model for the decline phase

Total Quality Management and Business Excellence

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-21

  Marimon, Frederic ^a   Heras, Iņaki ^b   Casadesús, Martí ^c  

^a UNIVERSITAT INTERNACIONAL DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b EUE Empresariales   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Environmental management; ISO 14000; ISO 9000; Quality management; Standardisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 61449210890     PISSN: 14783363     EISSN: 14783371     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14783360802614257     Document Type: Article

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