logging on bilateral trade of forest products between China and its partner countries. Design/methodology/approach – The …. The impacts of the efforts against illegal logging on bilateral trade of forest products are examined based on the … effects on the bilateral trade of total forest products between China and its partner countries. The bilateral agreement on …

Purpose – This paper aims to provide an overview of current Lean Six Sigma certification practices among different … interviews and secondary information are used to illustrate the existing variation in certification standards across industries … and organisations. Findings – The high variation in Lean Six Sigma certification standards makes it very difficult to …

In this article, the relationship is studied between certification on the ISO 9000 series and the performance of … organizations. It is often claimed that ISO certification generates an improvement in the performance of organizations. This … research aims to find out if ISO certification indeed results in better performance outcomes for organizations. This is of …

ISO 9000 certification adds to the fact of being a management tool, source of competitive advantages, its potential to … been planned, its main goal being to analyse how relevant certification may be in the progress of Spanish companies towards … participating companies reflect that although certification leads to a basic quality level, it is also true that it generates a …

. Such advantages and disadvantages lead to different reasons for seeking certification. Based on these reasons, this paper … analyzed the influence of internal motivation for seeking certification with level of quality management and performance in … relation between reasons for seeking certification and level of quality management and performance) have been performed on the …

benefits/limitations of obtaining certification for a quality management system (QMS) and differences between small‐sized and … medium/large‐sized organisations in terms of the pressures driving organisations to seek certification. Presents details of … attitudes to QMS certification than medium/large‐sized organisations. Finds both small‐sized and medium …