... is to provide an examination of external risk factors associated with the industry’s key suppliers through the creation of Bayesian networks which can be used to benchmark external risks among these suppliers. Design/methodology/approach The study sample consists of the suppliers to seven of the leading...

... and actions that will lead an organization to improve its quality through the evaluation of the results. Design/methodology/approach Four popular data-mining approaches (rough sets, association rules, classification rules and Bayesian networks) are applied on a set of 12,477 case records concerning...