Learning from kaizen events: A research methodology for determining the characteristics of more-and less - Successful events

27th Annual National Conference of the American Society for Engineering Management 2006 - Managing Change: Managing People and Technology in a Rapidly Changing World, ASEM 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 289-297

  Doole, Toni L ^a   Farris, Jennifer A ^b   Van Aken, Eileen M ^b   Worley, June ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS METRICS; MULTIPLE DATA TYPES; PUBLISHED ACCOUNTS; RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES; RESEARCH PROGRAMS; STAND -ALONE; SYSTEMATIC RESEARCH;

ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84879807988     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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