' behavior and firms' incentives to upgrade product quality in markets where information is traditionally limited. I first build … a model of consumer search with firms' endogenous quality decisions. In this model, lower search costs reallocate demand … toward higher-quality producers, raising firms' incentives to upgrade quality, and more so for firms selling ex-ante lower-quality …

Since 2009, German nursing homes have been evaluated regularly with quality report cards published online. We argue … that most of the information in the report cards does not reliably measure quality of care, but a subset of seven measures … the nursing home quality from the first to the second evaluation. Both indicators comprising either the two outcome …

for higher quality or more suitable products due to innovation. Product prices, however, reflect the market position of … aggregated measure for quality. Productivity, size and foreign ownership increase, while innovation decreases our quality measure …

them cope with the competition and offer their customers new, attractive, good quality products and services and at … competitive prices. In this context, total quality management is a viable and sustainable option that can systematically …-dimensional approach of total quality management and provide some concrete action ways through which organizations in Romania that …

as such more and more often they preffer purchasing services of the best possible quality at the lowest tariff. Therefore … have the interest of offering only good quality services on the market at the lowest possible tariffs, so that they could … market segments. The problem of the quality of the services performed by the tourism agents in Romania and their image is an …

product quality and reliability for customers and stakeholders. Recognizing this, the current study unbraces "signalling … theory" to explore the impact of digital transformation strategy (DTS) on firm's international quality certification status … and sales performance in the global economy. To this end, treating quality certification endogenously, the study relies on …

Consumers underestimation of the quality of remanufactured products is a barrier for remanufacturers. Online reviews … provide quality signals to consumers unaware of remanufactured products. To explore whether remanufacturers produce higher … quality products to improve their review ratings, considering the quality signalling effect of online reviews, a closed …