Quality management and performance: A comparison between the UK and Turkey

Production Planning and Control

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1015-1031

  Clegg, Ben ^a   Gholami, Roya ^a   Omurgonulsen, Mine ^b  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Operational performance; Operations management; Organisational performance; Quality management; Quality tools and critical success factors

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTOR; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; EXPLORATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS; OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE; OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT; ORGANISATIONAL PERFORMANCE; QUALITY MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELLING;

MANUFACTURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TOOLS;

QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84885634306     PISSN: 09537287     EISSN: 13665871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09537287.2011.642486     Document Type: Article

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