Compares ISO certification in Belgium and The Netherlands from a comprehensive viewpoint of organizational structure of … quality assessment and certification, the certifying bodies involved and, a survey analysis according to industry sector … perceptions of the implementation and future trends of ISO 9000 certification in Belgium ‐ from professionals in the automotive …

This paper reports on research which explores the links between quality assurance, or certification of the quality … certification. The second part of the paper applies the typology to data from a questionnaire survey of Western Australian … organisations with ISO 9000 certification. Empirical support for several of the groups in the typology is found in this analysis. …

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 …

with business success, there is little empirical research that can attribute causality to certification. Contributes to the … dangers in inferring that ISO 9000 certification leads to superior business performance. Additionally the findings should give … pause for thought for decision‐makers. Certification is a major investment yet the findings show that inflated expectations …

. 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 …

certification audit.  …