Selection of competitive advantages in TQM implementation using fuzzy AHP and sensitivity analysis

Asia Pacific Management Review

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 583-599

  Tseng, Ming Lang ^a   Lin, Yuan Hsu ^a  

^a MINGDAO UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Competitive advantage; Fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP); Sensitivity analysis; Total quality management (TQM)

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449522620     PISSN: 10293132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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