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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 …

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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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