Learning through quality and innovation

Managerial Auditing Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 417-423

  Wang, Catherine L ^a   Ahmed, Pervaiz K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Innovation; Knowledge management; Organizational learning; Quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986160868     PISSN: 02686902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02686900210437534     Document Type: Article

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