Identifying priority issues in facilities management benchmarking

Facilities

Volumn 18, Issue , 2000, Pages 427-434

  Mcdougall, Gavin ^a   Hinks, John ^b  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Caber   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Performance measurement; Qualitative techniques; Strategic facilities management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986173213     PISSN: 02632772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02632770010349664     Document Type: Article

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