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Benchmarking Maquiladora operations relative to those in the USA

Prasad, Sameer; Tata, Jasmine; Thorn, Ron - In: International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management 13 (1996) 9, pp. 8-18

benchmarks their quality practices vis‐à‐vis those in the USA. Six domains of TQM programmes (information and analysis, strategic …

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Total quality management in the US Air Force: a study of application and attitudes

Moser, Steven B.; Bailey, Timi L. - In: International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management 14 (1997) 5, pp. 482-490

States that the US military has adopted total quality management (TQM) initiatives to help maximize effectiveness during downsizing. Identifies, however, some potential barriers to military applications, for example, the autocratic hierarchy on which the military is based may not be conducive to...

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TQM in higher education ‐ a review

Owlia, Mohammad S.; Aspinwall, Elaine M. - In: International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management 14 (1997) 5, pp. 527-543

Posits that the role that quality plays in the higher education sector is becoming more important as the dominance of market‐orientation leaves no alternative for universities and colleges but to improve their quality while increasing efficiency. Philosophies like total quality management...

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The management and control of quality in a process industry

Chaudhry, Sohail S.; Tamimi, Nabil A.; Betton, John - In: International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management 14 (1997) 6, pp. 575-581

Aims to explore the role of management and control of quality in a process industry. Specifically, focuses on the current practices in the process of making cheese. Develops a survey instrument to measure managers’ perceptions regarding the extent to which various quality management procedures...

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Impact of operations management practices on quality and time‐based performance

Jayaram, Jayanth; Ahire, Sanjay - In: International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management 15 (1998) 2, pp. 192-204

Recent research in manufacturing has investigated the impact of enabling operations management (OM) practices on quality and time‐based performance separately. This research investigates the concurrent impact of supply management, human resources, just‐in‐time (JIT) and cross‐functional...

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Total quality management: applicability to law firms

Abraham, Steven E.; Spencer, Michael S.; Monk, Eloise L. - In: International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management 15 (1998) 5, pp. 541-554

The practice of law is under pressure from various sources. Economics is one such source. The number of licensed lawyers is growing rapidly at a time when other disciplines are threatening areas of practice that were once the sole province of lawyers. Another pressure on the profession comes...

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Time‐based competition

Ling Sim, Khim; Curatola, Anthony P. - In: International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management 16 (1999) 7, pp. 659-674

This study reports the experience of management from 83 electronic plants located in the USA in dealing with time …

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Strategies for talent management: a study of select organizations in the UAE

Singh, Abhilasha; Sharma, Jyoti - In: International Journal of Organizational Analysis 23 (2015) 3, pp. 337-347

Purpose – This paper aims at finding out strategies adopted by the organizations to reduce the employee turnover as well as to how to effectively manage human capital for competitive edge over the rivals in the UAE business environment. Design/methodology/approach – It was a quantitative...

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A comparative analysis of channel incentive programs in Brazil and the USA

Castro, Luciano Thome; Neves, Marcos Fava; Akridge, Jay … - In: International Journal of Emerging Markets 12 (2017) 2, pp. 263-278

consolidated theoretical effort was completed together with observations from two countries – Brazil and the USA – to build … selected in Brazil and the same three were selected in the USA. For completing each case report for the six companies in total … similarities within Brazil or the USA, than the same company in these two countries. The institutional environment and the network …

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Intensity of shock transmission amid US-BRICS markets

Lakshmi, P.; Visalakshmi, S.; Shanmugam, Kavitha - In: International Journal of Emerging Markets 10 (2015) 3, pp. 311-328

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the intensity of transmission of shocks from USA to BRICS countries …-movements altered either in response to international shocks that originated in advanced markets like USA or due to their domestic … crisis in the USA cropped up. This finding lends support to the prominence of developed (US) market links in the …

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