...Lucía Barcos Redin; Manuel F. Morales-Contreras; Manuel F. Suarez-Barraza; Victoria María Rodríguez Chacón Purpose In response to the changing environment and competition external pressures, Higher Education Institutions have adopted management practices oriented towards increasing productivity...

... influence or interact with the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). To fill this gap, this study aims to assess the influences of Sustainable Supply Chain Management (SSCM) on the implementation of the UN SDGs. Design/methodology/approach A systematic literature review of 97...

... as a management strategy. Design/methodology/approach To explore the concept of long-thinking further in a non-business setting, a grounded theory study was conducted with preschool leaders in a municipality in Sweden to examine how the leaders describe, define and apply the concept of long-term thinking...

...Francesca Magno; Fabio Cassia; Christian M. Ringle Purpose Partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) has become an established social sciences multivariate analysis technique. Since quality management researchers also increasingly using PLS-SEM, this growing interest calls...

...Renata Biadacz Purpose The purpose of the study is to examine the research problem that represents an attempt to approximate the importance of quality costing in managing a modern enterprise using the selected enterprises from small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Poland. Design...

...Robert Saxby; Michele Cano-Kourouklis; Evi Viza Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the results of an assessment into how well the Lean Management method will support continuous improvement in the world of Industry 4.0. Design/methodology/approach Using thematic analysis...

...Francisco Espasandin-Bustelo; Beatriz Palacios-Florencio; Javier Sánchez-Rivas García Purpose Corporate social responsibility (CSR) research intellectual structures are analysed and compared on the basis of the main international journals of management and tourism. Design/methodology/approach...

... improvement. Also, the data showed the level of TQM readiness in Yemeni organizations was 58.93 percent. This level of TQM readiness indicates there is a potential for successful adoption of quality management standards and models in Yemeni organizations. Research limitations/implications This study...

...” and this love directly reflects on company performance (Levi, 1978). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Management Workplace Meditation Mindfulness Well-being Albeit in a variety of ways, there is broad recognition that there is a direct relationship between well-being...

.... This is quite a useful handbook which will help increase the appetite for further reading on quality and safety issues. Edited by Matt   Seaver . Gower Handbook of Quality Management (3rd ed.) . Gower , 2003 . 536 pp. , ISBN: 0‐566‐08149‐0 (hardback)   £95.00 Quality...

...M. Hasan; R.M. Kerr Quality is an effective strategic weapon for improving productivity in the organization. A quality management framework based on the attribute theory of service quality was used to show how the organisational performance is affected by various quality dimensions. Using...

... of the whole enterprise. To overcome such problems, the best‐in‐class have introduced a company‐wide framework. Having studied such management systems, the author has developed the “Process of management” that purposely connects the key management processes from the development of the strategies...

...Deb Stewart; Dianne Waddell Adequate, appropriate training of quality managers is essential to the development and implementation of effective quality management systems. This study reports on a survey of 235 Australian quality managers to determine their perceptions of their training...

...Y.K. Chan; Jacob Kam; K. Neailey; W.H. Ip A significant milestone of the quality journey of the MTR Corporation (MTR) was the establishment of the ISO 9000‐based quality management system (QMS) in its core departments. Adopting the ISO 9000 standards, the QMS provided a framework...

...Anthony Ang Addresses employee involvement as a management approach, tracing the concepts, assumptions and roots in which it can be located. It reviews the plethora of typologies based upon which employee involvement programmes implemented in organisations today are founded. It advocates further...

... the information needs of managers was popularised by Rockart (1979). CSFs are those factors which are critical to the success of any organisation, in the sense that, if objectives associated with the factors are not achieved, the organisation will fail – perhaps catastrophically so (Rockart, 1979). In the context...

... and suppliers. To find success in the Relationship Age and to drive sustainable market value, firms will need to develop a balanced approach in goal setting, quality programs and management techniques to grow and maximize their most important capital store, relationship assets. The purpose of this paper...

... management. The pharmaceutical industry, because of the stakes implied by the activity itself, is particularly concerned with the links between quality and strategy: the example of the large European group Merck‐Lipha appears quite significant. In parallel, the various designs of total quality – even...

.... Works out a Tao of quality framework. From the analysis of a system view of a business, the MBNQA model and the EFQM model, first highlights the essence of TQM based on the concepts of quality management systems and then combines it with some prevailing life values in a relation diagram to form an open...

...Masoud A. Azhashemi; Samuel K. Ho Japanese firms which long ago realized the importance of product quality have, over the last decade, been focusing on the broader issue of management quality as a way of increasing market share and profits. Management quality has traditionally been difficult...