...Andrea Chiarini Purpose The purpose of this paper is to theorize and prioritize the main categories of risk sources for the European manufacturing small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in accordance with the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001:2015 requirement “risk...

...David Williamson; Gary Lynch‐Wood Presents the findings of a UK‐based study into the environmental practices of SMEs (i.e. small and medium‐sized enterprises employing up to 250 people). The firms were found to be environmentally “reactive”, and this is explained by reference to a system...

...S. Roden; B.G. Dale Reports an examination of the management’s, staff’s and operators’ attitudes to and awareness of the concept of quality costing in the division of a small‐ to medium‐sized enterprise (SME) manufacturing precision components for the aerospace industry. Despite a previous...

... Improvement Kaizen Manufacturing Small‐ to medium‐sized enterprises Surveys Historically, tariff barriers and subsidies have heavily protected Australia’s manufacturing industry. In the early 1980s the government embarked on an ambitious program of deregulation to meet the challenge...

... by the literature. © MCB UP Limited 1997 ISO 9000 Manufacturing industry Small‐ to medium‐sized enterprises Since the release of ISO 9000 by the International Organization for Standardization in 1987, the standard has become extensively accepted in most of the developed countries...

... TQM going and poor resources. The breakdown of the difficulties is shown in Table X . © MCB UP Limited 1996 ISO 9000 Malaysia Small‐ to medium‐sized enterprises TQM The concepts of total quality management (TQM) and the ISO 9000 are relatively new to the Malaysian industries...