...‐maquiladora industry. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Quality management International trade Manufacturing Mexico USA Empirical studies The paper is organized as follows: literature review, quality constructs, data collection, analysis of results, discussion and implications...

... belief systems of the Asia Pacific region. Implications for the future are discussed. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Competitiveness International trade Pacific rim Quality management World economy IJQRM 15,8/9 892 Management of quality vis-aÁ vis quality of management in the Asia-Pacific region...

... of quality standard (Mahoney and Thor, 1994). © MCB UP Limited 1997 Competitiveness Corporate culture International trade ISO 9000 Organizational change Total quality management Global market realities are demanding a strategic shift in the way businesses in the USA approach...

... contributed much to our understanding of the dynamics of the market-place. In this article, we outline the product life-cycle theory, its application to international trade, and attempt to test it for the UK, using disaggregated, industry-by-industry data. Changing Patterns of International Trade...