This dissertation includes three essays that consider the role of quality variation within agricultural production when … consumers are heterogeneous in their preferences for quality. The first essay, 'The Welfare Benefits of USDA Beef Quality … Certification Programs,' estimates the consumer welfare benefits from the increase in scope of USDA beef quality certification …

Total Quality Management (TQM) is widely adopted in industry and well studied in academe. It includes a philosophy and …

Internal audit quality is an issue of great importance to both the internal and external audit professions. PCAOB … function on both the internal and external auditors' evaluation of the quality of the internal audit function. To assess the … importance of the internal audit function's sourcing arrangement in the internal audit function's quality assessment, the …

On 12 April 2012, a conference on 'Quality of work and Employment: A policy tool towards inclusive and sustainable … than 20 years now, were discussed, focusing on the current challenges for quality of work and employment and the need for a …

We develop a model of international trade with export quality requirements and two dimensions of firm heterogeneity. In … addition to "productivity", firms are also heterogeneous in their "caliber" — the ability to produce quality using fewer fixed … quality, our model provides a more nuanced characterization of firms’ exporting behavior. In particular, it explains the …

improve overall quality, there have been no studies to show that software vendors have an incentive to invest in building more …

the importance of the companies dedicatemore attention to the quality with that their services are rendered. Among all of … the considered aspects,one of the most relevant, however a lot of times left for second plan, refers to the quality that … services (BACK ROOM) and the work front (FRONT OFFICE). Para to evaluate the quality in the service in a company, we will use …

producer firms. At the sametime, the retail system has proven to be very sensitive to consumer demands by providing quality …