The impact of quality management practices on performance: an empirical study

Benchmarking

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 511-535

  Patyal, Vishal Singh ^a   Koilakuntla, Maddulety ^b  

^a NICMAR University   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING NITIE   (India)

Author keywords

India; Quality performance; Quality practices; SEM; Six Sigma; TQM

Indexed keywords

EID: 85013278396     PISSN: 14635771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/BIJ-11-2015-0109     Document Type: Article

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