The identification of factors affecting change towards best practice in manufacturing organisations

Management Decision

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 549-556

  Barker, Bob ^a  

^a Switchgear and Instrumentation Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Manufacturing; Mindsets; Organizational change; Time; Value analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993021287     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251749810232637     Document Type: Article

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