Assessing the effectiveness of quality management in a global context

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 307-322

  Power, Damien ^a   Schoenherr, Tobias ^b   Samson, Danny ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Competitive capability progression; global manufacturing; quality management; survey; theory of performance frontiers

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE CAPABILITIES; FINLAND; GERMANY; GLOBAL CONTEXT; GLOBAL MANUFACTURING; MANUFACTURING PLANT; QUALITY PERFORMANCE; SOUTH KOREA; THEORY AND PRACTICE; THEORY OF PERFORMANCE FRONTIERS; WESTERN EUROPE;

AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURE; QUALITY CONTROL; SURVEYS;

QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 79955558498     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2010.2081992     Document Type: Article

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