An empirical study on the integration of management system audits

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 486-495

  Bernardo, Merce ^a   Casadesus, Marti ^b   Karapetrovic, Stanislav ^c   Heras, Iñaki ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Audit; Integrated management systems; ISO 14001; ISO 19011; ISO 9001

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL STUDIES; INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; INTERNAL AUDIT; ISO 14001; ISO 9001; ISO 9001:2000; MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; MULTIVARIATE CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; INTEGRATED CONTROL; MANAGEMENT; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STANDARDS;

TROPICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 76749125358     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2009.12.001     Document Type: Article

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