Vuppalapati, Kiran; Ahire, Sanjay L.; Gupta, Tarun - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 15 (1995) 5, pp. 84-94
, philosophical, and implementation perspectives. Theorizes a synergistic interaction between JIT and TQM when they are viewed as an … manufacturing firms: just‐in‐time (JIT) production systems and total quality management (TQM). Both evolved in Japan, and the West … deciphered and applied them later. TQM has evolved in Japan over the last four decades, and JIT principles were developed and …