... industries Quality systems ISO 9000 series Food industry ISO 22000 Food companies Also, a number of authors such as Van der Spiegel et al. (2004) , Tang et al. (2004) , Goetsch and Davis (2005) , Heras et al. (2006) and Gotzamani et al. (2007) regard...

... questionnaires for final analysis (response rate of 43 per cent). The profile of the sample of this study is shown in Table I . © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 India Educational institutions Higher education Total quality management ISO 9000 series Engineering education Factor...

... to improve their practices. Malaysia Small to medium‐sized enterprises Benchmarking Manufacturing systems ISO 9000 series Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have been the backbone of economic growth of an economy in driving industrial development (Normah, 2006). SMEs play a big role...

... standard edition. The standard reassessment which led to the Vision 2000 project can be interpreted as an effect of a reorientation of factory management principles, induced by the increasing diffusion of TQM philosophy (Laszo, 2000 ; Conti, 2000). ISO 9000 series Quality standards Quality...