Charting staff attitude along the journey towards getting ISO certification

Managerial Auditing Journal

Volumn 14, Issue , 1999, Pages 44-50

  Koo, L C ^a   Tao, Fredrick K c ^b   Koo, Hannah ^c  

^a Hong Kong Medical Association   (Hong Kong)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

^c International Management Centres ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Employee attitudes; ISO 9000

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868620056     PISSN: 02686902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02686909910245586     Document Type: Article

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