literature, with an emphasis on establishing its relationship to quality management theories and topics for further research …Almost similar to quality management in common, Six-Sigma has penetrated most of the sectors of business world these …

The aim of this paper is to carry out a systematic literature review about the relationships between quality management …, innovation, and performance. For that end, a search was carried out in the Web of Science and Scopus databases, and 172 articles … were selected. Results show that there is a positive relationship between quality management, product and process …

new territory for a lot of companies, especially regarding the evaluation of strategic projects and the final financial … and social results. The paper focuses on a pattern methodology for the measurement of project management performance and … for projects prioritisation process. For this purpose, we analyse relevant pieces of literature in the field of project …

examples of companies that achieved business excellence by putting quality at the core of their production system such as … total quality management and business excellence, and to identify and analyze the best practices related to them at Toyota … of the paper. The main results show that the best practices of Toyota Motor Corporation related to total quality …

such contracts tend to be between 11 to 14 percent more likely to improve products. These results hold when we control for …

from the World Management Survey to estimate a global index of the quality of management practices for MNEs with …). Using detailed data on all Swedish firms for the period from 1996 to 2009, we find statistical evidence that affiliate … performance differs systematically across source countries. For instance, affiliates of US multinational enterprises (MNEs) are …

group average return to capital for that industry, and c) that outperform other firms in the economy according to return on … offered concerning the common strategies of successful firms. A broader research agenda for British business history is …

profoundly impacting the productivity of the firm. A set of five propositions is suggested and the implications for management …

scorecards' of integrated financial and non-financial measures to measures of intellectual capital and measures for discloser and … new measures, (3) Discussing the researches on disclosure of Performance Measures, and (4) Laying background for further …