Status of Quality Management practices in manufacturing SMEs: A comparative study between Australia and the UK

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 52, Issue 21, 2014, Pages 6482-6495

  Kumar, Maneesh ^a   Khurshid, Khawaja Khurram ^b   Waddell, Dianne ^c  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Quality Management; SMEs; survey; UK

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING; MANUFACTURE; PROCESS ENGINEERING; PROCESS MONITORING; QUALITY MANAGEMENT; SILICON; SIX SIGMA; SURVEYING; SURVEYS; WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS; AUSTRALIA; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTOR; PERFORMANCE METRICS; QUALITY MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE; SMES;

SILICON ALLOYS;

EID: 84908156073     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2014.948574     Document Type: Article

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