Knowledge as a facilitator for enhancing innovation performance through total quality management

Total Quality Management and Business Excellence

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 425-438

  Hung, Richard Yu Yuan ^a   Lien, Bella Ya Hui ^b   Fang, Shih Chieh ^c   McLean, Gary N ^d  

^a San Kuei Investment Group   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Innovation; Knowledge management; Total quality management

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951235668     PISSN: 14783363     EISSN: 14783371     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14783361003606795     Document Type: Article

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