Benchmarking leagility in mass services: The case of a fast food restaurant chains in Iran

Benchmarking

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 799-816

  Rahimnia, Fariborz ^a   Moghadasian, Mahdi ^a   Castka, Pavel ^b  

^a FERDOWSI UNIVERSITY OF MASHHAD   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Agile production; Lean production; Mass production; Middle East

Indexed keywords

EID: 71849110315     PISSN: 14635771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14635770911000123     Document Type: Article

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