Venturing down the TQM path for SME's

International Small Business Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 50-68

  van der Wiele, Ton ^a   Brown, Alan ^a  

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EID: 79959194547     PISSN: 02662426     EISSN: 17412870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0266242698162003     Document Type: Article

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1. The research has been supported by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) with a research grant, and support was also provided by the Small & Medium Enterprise Research Centre (SMERC) at Edith Cowan University.
2. Alan Brown is Associate Professor in HRM and TQM and Director of SMERC at Edith Cowan University, Perth WA; Ton van der Wiele is working at Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and is Director of SQMI, the Strategic Quality Management Institute at that University.
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