Best practices for the effectiveness of benchmarking in the Indonesian manufyacturing companies

Benchmarking

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 115-143

  Asrofah, Tutie ^a   Zailani, Suhaiza ^a   Fernando, Yudi ^a  

^a GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Best practice paper type research paper; Indonesia; Manufacturing industries

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950529924     PISSN: 14635771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14635771011022343     Document Type: Article

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