The corporate strategicoperational divide and TQM

Measuring Business Excellence

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 5-14

  Leonard, Denis ^a   Mcadam, Rodney ^b  

^a RMT Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Operations management; Strategy; Total quality management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986132609     PISSN: 13683047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13683040210420493     Document Type: Article

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