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An e‐commerce site for gift flower arrangements that fit kansei and social manners

Ishihara, Keiko; Nakagawa, Ryo; Ishihara, Shigekazu; … - In: The TQM Journal 20 (2008) 4, pp. 338-347

Purpose – Gift flowers should be chosen to depict a message with the sender's kansei and are bound by nature of flowers and social manners, to maintain social relationship between the sender and the recipient. Few buyers, but most florists, have expert knowledge of the flowering time, scent,...

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Leadership in global business environment through a vision creation process

Karaszewski, Robert - In: The TQM Journal 22 (2010) 4, pp. 399-409

nature of the Japanese leadership style. The choice of Japan was conditioned neither by the author's admiration for this …

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Integrated lean TQM model for sustainable development

Ho, Samuel K.M. - In: The TQM Journal 22 (2010) 6, pp. 583-593

Japan, interested academics and related parties are invited to join hands to validate this model for the sustainable …

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Managing for quality in the USA and Japan: differences between the MBNQA, DP and JQA

Khoo, Hsien H.; Tan, Kay C. - In: The TQM Magazine 15 (2003) 1, pp. 14-24

Baldrige National Quality Award, the Japanese Deming Prize, and the Japan Quality Award, contain in their frameworks several …

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An investigation into Japanese 5‐S practice in UK industry

Warwood, Stephen J.; Knowles, Graeme - In: The TQM Magazine 16 (2004) 5, pp. 347-353

This paper presents the findings of a survey on the use of the Japanese practice of 5‐S for workplace organisation in the UK. The research methodology was to review the literature, conduct a survey using a questionnaire, follow‐up the questionnaire with a series of semi‐structured...

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Looking through and beyond the TQM horizon

Gomes Da Silva, Jonas; Tadashi, Ohfuji; Kikuo, Nezu - In: The TQM Magazine 17 (2005) 1, pp. 67-84

Brazil and Japan; and propose a business model aimed at helping companies to achieve world‐class level of excellence. Design … is that senior managers are positively leading successful top companies with a high focus on customer satisfaction and … are continuously improving the six dimensions of their total quality process – as some managers do; but through a …

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The origins and development of quality initiatives in American business

Goldman, Henry H. - In: The TQM Magazine 17 (2005) 3, pp. 217-225

initiatives” in the USA came after W. Edwards Deming, Joseph Juran, and others returned from Japan in the late 1950s. These men … following the Second World War. Their techniques and methodologies had raised the industrial output of Japan to heights not …

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Ideological dilemmas: constructing motherhood through caring consumption in Japan

Takahashi, Mayumi - In: Young Consumers 15 (2014) 1, pp. 84-93

children as primary caregivers are involved in contemporary consumer culture in Japan, by using the concepts of “caring … insight into how mothers of young children in Japan experience consumer culture in a specific sociocultural environment and …

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Consumers at play: negotiations of identity in a Japanese preschool

Takahashi, Mayumi - In: Young Consumers 17 (2016) 1, pp. 94-106

. Design/methodology/approach Data were gathered from ethnographic fieldwork in a local preschool in Japan. Two classes of five …

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Strands of modernization : the circulation of technology and business practices in East Asia, 1850-1920

Sicilia, David B. (ed.); Wittner, David G. (ed.) - 2021

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