pressures to reduce price, improve quality, while producing an environmental friendly product using lean manufacturing practices …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to validate the applicability of Strategic Quality Management (SQM) methods at a … UK based manufacturing Small to Medium Enterprise (SME) for changing the organisational culture and improving the …

Purpose – The main aim of this study is to provide an empirical analysis on the practice of quality management among … comparative analysis on quality management practices among the three levels of hospitals. Design/methodology/approach – The main … Peninsular Malaysia participated in the survey. Findings – Practice of quality management was found to be significantly higher in …

purpose of this paper is to discuss the concept of leanness and to provide an efficient measurement method for measuring … indices have been developed and presented separately on 100 points scale for all parameters of leanness i.e. LI Suppliers = 47 … – It will be helpful to both academician and practitioners as an assessment tool for evaluation of lean status of any …

suggested that the laddering interview is a room for social actions where both interviewer and interviewee are “doing things …

better services. Exploratory research provides support for these ideas.  …

challenge of how to improve supply reliability and quality, while simultaneously reducing costs. This has led to an increase in … attitudes towards managing suppliers and their efforts to manage quality in the supply process. This study presents results of a … supplier and quality management. Results indicate that significant differences in attitudes exist between alliance adopters and …

Purpose – The paper seeks to examine the impact of operational quality management practices within the supply chain … (customer and supplier focused) operational quality practices and measures of product quality and customer service. Findings … – Not only do both internally and externally focused quality management practices impact performance, but externally focused …