An international comparison of the perceptions about the revised ISO 9000 quality system standards

Total Quality Management and Business Excellence

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 393-408

  van der Wiele, Ton ^a   van Iwaarden, Jos ^a   Brown, Alan ^b   Steimle, Ulrich ^c   Zink, Klaus J ^c  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

International survey research; ISO 9000; Quality management

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650296667     PISSN: 14783363     EISSN: 14783371     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14783360902781840     Document Type: Article

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