En route to a theory of benchmarking

Benchmarking

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 484-503

  Moriarty, John P ^a   Smallman, Clive ^b  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Best practice; Epistemology; Organizational theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349413447     PISSN: 14635771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14635770910972423     Document Type: Review

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