Business excellence in New Zealand: Continuous improvement, learning, and change

Total Quality Management and Business Excellence

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 755-772

  Corbett, Lawrence M ^a   Angell, Linda C ^b  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF SHARJAH   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Baldrige; business excellence; learning; New Zealand

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859321453     PISSN: 14783363     EISSN: 14783371     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14783363.2011.585782     Document Type: Article

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