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Um wettbewerbsfähig zu bleiben, streben viele Organisationen eine kontinuierliche Verbesserung mithilfe eines Qualitätsmanagementsystems an. Die Zertifizierung spielt dabei zunehmend eine größere Rolle. Für den Bereich der Qualitätsmanagementsysteme besteht die Möglichkeit, sich nach der...
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This paper examines whether differences in wage rigidity across sectors can be explained by differences in workforce composition, wage-bargaining institutions, technology and competition. We rely on a large administrative matched employer-employee dataset for Belgium over the period 1990 - 2002....
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The production planning problem of flexible manufacturing system (FMS) concerns with decisions that have to be made before an FMS begins to produce parts according to a given production plan during an upcoming planning horizon. The main aspect of production planning deals with machine loading...
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Increasing global competition has evolved a manufacturing environment which gleans vast product variety, reduced manufacturing lead times, increased quality standards and competitive costs. Simultaneously, with a rising trend toward globalization, these manufacturing environments must be...
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The present paper briefly characterizes main problems and trends in innovation activity of Slovak enterprises during … manufacturing companies. Even the last survey shows that internal and external barriers to innovation are still strong. Some … improvement has been achieved in managers' awareness of the importance of innovation and necessity to create an internal climate …
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The implementation and certification of QA systems has become a widespread practice in the business world. Measurement and control systems adopted by businesses should reflect their level of commitment to quality management. Generally speaking, the need to develop non-financial indicators...
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The aim of this paper is to identify the dimensions for organisation knowledge and quality management in order to help researchers to measure both terms and their impacts on performance in future studies. A literature review about knowledge management and qualitymanagement is carried out to that...
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This paper presents the results of the empirical study conducted in 186 tourist accommodation businesses nationally certified under the Q for Tourist Quality”, presented in order to analyze the motivations that lead companies in the tourism sector implementing and certifying Quality Management...
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The literature review previous to the realization of this research has allowed us to observe that in the field of management of quality is necessary empirical research to analyze the structure of relations among the critical factors of quality and results. In this context, we conducted an...
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Accounting information was often used to determine the effect of quality management initiatives. Relation between quality management and financial performance of the companies was extensively explored but with the conflicting results. The most recent studies introduced intermediary factors...
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