A systems research on quality management under the MBNQA framework

Total Quality Management and Business Excellence

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1195-1211

  Sun, Hongyi ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

MBNQA model; Norway; Quality management; Structural analysis; Structural equation modeling (SEM)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863398215     PISSN: 14783363     EISSN: 14783371     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14783363.2011.624776     Document Type: Article

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