a favourable impact of enhanced quality in the form of improvements in productivity, inprocess inventory, on …

. Productivity improvement approaches were also investigated and related to performance. Multiple quality and productivity … interventions were correlated with eight actual quality, three productivity, and three financial performance measures. Results … indicate that a specific profile of quality and productivity improvement approaches was significantly related to performance …

Improving quality and productivity simultaneously is vital to organizational competitiveness. Although continuous … performance, which variables intervene by enhancing or restricting the achievement of high quality and productivity, or which … measures are appropriate for evaluating differences. Develops a quality evaluation tool and total factor productivity measures …

performance and productivity measures, to test the hypothesis that there is a definite link between a firm’s commitment to quality …

quality and productivity in manufacturing systems. In recent years, TQM has been seen as an important strategy for achieving … success in business both in terms of quality and productivity. However, there seem to be no clear strategic framework and …

The intent of this empirical research is to identify the critical factors that are potentially “fatal” to productivity …

This empirical study investigates productivity performance of Canadian (n = 43) and US (n = 95) manufacturers in the … different categories of productivity measures: financial, customer related, and internal business related. TQM firms indicate … improved performance on various productivity measures. Statistically significant differences exist between the two countries on …

The essence of the lessons from Japanese industry are abstracted so that it is possible to relate productivity …

design of productivity measurement systems. The responses of 114 chief executives, drawn from a wide range of New Zealand … associated with management’s preference for the type of productivity measurement systems.  …

Assesses institutional and individual research productivity in the area of international operations management (IOM) by … practitioners 14 percent of this IOM research. The study provides insights on the IOM research productivity and quality of …