... and strength of each performance indicator for companies that have passed, or not passed, ISO accreditation. Design/methodology/approach Companies in the manufacturing industry and service industry, with stocks listed in Taiwan's regular stock market and over‐the‐counter stock market, are selected...

...‐electronic companies in Taiwan as evidence cases. The valid response numbers to the survey are 177. Findings The research results indicate that the performance measurement indicators developed by this paper are effective in the ISO‐certified opto‐electronic industries. The evaluation indicators...

... studies Taiwan Content analysis has been extensively employed in analyzing qualitative data. It is an objective coding scheme applied to various types of unobtrusive data, such as interviews and field notes, which are often not amenable to analysis until the information they convey has been...

...Ching‐Chow Yang; Wen‐Tsaan Lin; Ming‐Yi Lin; Jui‐Tang Huang Purpose Facing the competition pressure of internationalization and diversification, the semiconductor industry of Taiwan has to increase the activation/utilization rate of machines, enhance flow speed and values, cut down delivery...

...W.T. Lin; S.C. Chen; K.S. Chen Purpose Aims to assess the effect of European Union performance directives related to CE marking on the machinery industry of Taiwan. Design/methodology/approach This paper adopts a questionnaire to collect information. By means of a statistical scheme...

...Shirley A. Hopkins; Winter Nie; Willie E. Hopkins Assesses differences in the economies of Taiwan and China to determine whether or not perceptions of quality management differences exist among managers of electronic firms in the two countries. Statistical results suggest that these two groups...

...Wen‐Hsien Chen; Robert S.Y. Lu This case study serves to illustrate the fact that Chinese philosophy may play an important role in guiding a firm along the path of quality transformation. We examined the successful quality transformation of a Chinese firm in Taiwan. We presented the firm’s...

... countries. However, it has also great impact on those countries in the developing world that have steady growth in industrial development. Taiwan is one of the developing countries that has to deal with this problem. Air pollution is not just an environmental problem, but also a social problem. It has...

... such as Japan and Taiwan, such concepts have been used for a while. The so‐called product oriented design (POD) and quality function deployment (QFD) are widely used in many industries. This may be one of the main reasons why many Eastern countries have had a very high economic growth rate during the past two...