We analyse the effect of competition on quality in hospital market with regulated prices, considering both the effect … and quality, we show - in both cases - that the effect is generally ambiguous. In contrast to the received theoretical …

This study investigates professionals on the field of quality, are responsible to give to customer honest clarification … of fundamental ideas. Quality movement is losing credibility with suggesting that the idea of quality is replacing with … the idea of excellence. Findings are based on more than 25 years of practice in professional promotion of quality: in …

as such more and more often they preffer purchasing services of the best possible quality at the lowest tariff. Therefore … the managers and employees of the firms in the hospitality industry (the tourism agents, hotels, restaurants etc) should … have the interest of offering only good quality services on the market at the lowest possible tariffs, so that they could …

approach to quality, as embodied in Malcolm Baldrige Quality award criteria. To accomplish this, a questionnaire was developed … criteria to define the position of the company in their strategic quality approach. This questionnaire was then sent to 1000 … members of the American Society for Quality. A total of 219 usable responses were received and analyzed. The results indicate …

Quality remains or continues to be one of the top ranking strategic issues in all major organisations. However, today … alignment of quality with today’s business challenges, are widely criticized. There is a sense that quality has become outdated … direction provided historically by quality leaders such as Deming, Juran, Crosby and others. The above has resulted in many …

available definitions of the concept quality in order to find or propose a valid and reliable definition of quality. …

Little evidence is available for the effect of competition on educational quality as only a few countries allow large …

A quality social service is one which fulfils a set of demands and rules according to a standard and especially … improvement of the educational offer, the educational context, the quality of the human resources and the relationship between … fulfill the students needs, requires and expectations. Because quality enhance is a continuous process, in the recommendation …

This article reviews state-of-the-art findings on care and quality from published research from 2003-2014 in Germany …, specifically from the perspective of the elderly. It is based on a larger project on care and quality in Germany that was funded by … the Hans Böckler Foundation. The study provides a much needed overview of current issues on quality and care in light of …