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Volume 8, Issue 4
1 August 1996
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The TQM Magazine
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Review Article| August 01 1996

Fifty years of quality: an anniversary retrospective

Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-6887
Print ISSN: 0954-478X
© MCB UP Limited
1996
The TQM Magazine (1996) 8 (4): 5–16.
https://doi.org/10.1108/09544789610125261

Examines the past and future of total quality management through observations contributed by senior leaders of the USA quality movement on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the American Society for Quality Control, the 40th anniversary of the European Organization for Quality and the 30th anniversary of the International Academy for Quality.

Keywords: International standards, Quality control, TQM
© MCB UP Limited
1996
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