The empirical relationship between quality management and the speed of new product development

Total Quality Management and Business Excellence

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 351-361

  Sun, Hongyi ^a   Zhao, Yangyang ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Concurrent engineering (CE); Continuous improvement (CI); New product development (NPD); Quality function deployment (QFD); Total quality management (TQM); Value analysis (VA)

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951209372     PISSN: 14783363     EISSN: 14783371     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14783361003606480     Document Type: Article

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