Best performance-best practices: The case of Italian manufacturing companies

International Journal of Business Performance Management

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 203-215

  Calabrese, Giuseppe ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Best performance; Best practice; Manufacturing companies; Size growth

Indexed keywords

EID: 64249108220     PISSN: 13684892     EISSN: 17415039     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBPM.2009.024371     Document Type: Article

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