In the article are elaborated several results of research project VEGA No. 1/0229/08 Perspectives of quality management development in coherence with requirements of Slovak republic market. Design of proposals for higher performance and efficiency of the quality management in the industrials...

This study investigates professionals on the field of quality, are responsible to give to customer honest clarification of fundamental ideas. Quality movement is losing credibility with suggesting that the idea of quality is replacing with the idea of excellence. Findings are based on more than...

The purpose of this article is to describe how Quality Management (QM) is perceived today by scholars at three Swedish universities, and into what QM is expected to develop into in twenty years. Data were collected through structured workshops using affinity diagrams with scholars teaching and...

In order to ensure and to improve quality in the agro-food sector quality systems have to undergo a permanent change: simple end-of-the-pipe monitoring is therefore being replaced with management oriented concepts. Farmers are also increasingly requested to implement quality systems. This paper...

The goal of the article is to reflect urgency of issues of introduction of the principles of international quality standards into the practice of domestic high-tech enterprises, namely: telecommunication enterprises. Analysing, systemising and generalising scientific works of many scientists,...

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. August 2010. Major: Business Administration. Advisor: Kingshuk K. Sinha. 1 computer file (PDF); x, 197 pages, appendices 1-4.

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. June 2009. Major: Business Administration. Advisors: Dr. Kevin Linderman and Dr. Roger G. Schroeder. 1 computer file (PDF); xi, 119 pages, appendices.

This study aims to test a new conceptual model based on the relationship between quality management (QM), environmental management maturity (EMM), adoption of external practices of green supply chain management (GSCM) (green purchasing and collaboration with customers) and green performance (GP)...

In order to ensure efficient and effective health care, of equal high quality and accessibility, at all the levels of healthcare and across the entire Croatian territory, all operators in health services are required to establish, develop and maintain a system for assuring and improving the...

Lately, the quality management has integrated more and more among its components Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). With strong roots in the foundation for sustainable development, protection of the environment, issues of social justness and economic growth, CSR raises numerous issues...