competition that focuses more on quality. What’s more, international corporations perform quality activities under the … more in quality, as well as in research and development. VIKO company is the focus of this self-assessment study, since it … lies at the conjunction of companies operating in this sector, it being a local company performing various quality …

In modern conditions, quality management is already becoming a managerial function like any other function in the … organization contributes to total quality management. TQM is a management system aimed at the continuous improvement of products or …

The implementation of total quality management as a contemporary concept has already begun in the organizations in the … Republic of Macedonia. This implementation is based on the conclusion of the positive effects that total quality management …

Given that consumers value quality, and such advertising content informs consumers' beliefs about quality, it is not … surprising that high quality brands emphasize quality in their advertising content. What is less obvious is whether firms with … lower quality brands should also follow suit and emphasize quality in their advertising to signal a higher quality. We …

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 …

' 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 …

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 …

purpose of the excellence model induced by the principles of total quality management by importance (percentage) given to each …