Creating a financial advantage is important in today's competitive business world. When looking at critical reasons for success, a great deal can be learned by the role finance plays in a quality movement. Each quality movement has priorities. Financial management's importance varies by program....

Creating a financial advantage is important in today's competitive business world. When looking at critical reasons for success, a great deal can be learned by the role finance plays in a quality movement. Each quality movement has priorities. Financial management's importance varies by program....

Purpose – The purpose this paper is to investigate the multi-dimensionality of total quality management (TQM) practices and its relationship with production workers' job satisfaction in the Malaysian electrical and electronics (E&E) industry context.Design/methodology/approach – Data for...

The context of providing right value to the customer begins with a holistic objective and a broad vision. The issue of broad vision appears as being devoid of the point focus, but it is a blessing in disguise especially when this asymptotic phenomenon results because of inclusion of...

The rapidly shifting global market, has warranted organizations to determine new opportunities or re-engineer processes as means to obtain an edge over competitors. Literature suggests the demand for increased quality is a crucial aspect for organizations to survive in quickly expanding global...

This work builds and tests a vertical product differentiation duopoly model, where firms first choose quality and then choose prices, in the lab. We consider both the case in which production costs are unaffected by the quality of the good produced and the case in which production costs increase...