International Quality Control Certification: Signal or Heuristic?
نویسندگان
چکیده
The objectives of this paper are to: 1) understand the characteristics of manufacturing firms associated with ISO 9000 quality control certification and to assess the support these relationships provide for different explanations of the phenomenon; and 2) use these empirical relationships to identify firms most likely to benefit from technical assistance regarding quality control: i.e., firms with a strong need for quality control certification but with limited capabilities to acquire it. Thus, the policy interest of the analysis is to identify the possible role for industrial extension to facilitate quality control certification of disadvantaged firms. _____________________ * Wojan is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate, TVA Rural Studies and Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Kentucky. Bailey is a Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Agricultural Economics, and Economist, Cabinet for Economic Development, Commonwealth of Kentucky. Financial support for this research was provided by TVA Rural Studies.
منابع مشابه
An Improved Standard Cell Placement Methodology using Hybrid Analytic and Heuristic Techniques
In recent years, size of VLSI circuits is dramatically grown and layout generation of current circuits has become a dominant task in design flow. Standard cell placement is an effective stage of physical design and quality of placement affects directly on the performance, power consumption and signal immunity of design. Placement can be performed analytically or heuristically. Analytical placer...
متن کاملEfficient and Robust Parameter Tuning for Heuristic Algorithms
The main advantage of heuristic or metaheuristic algorithms compared to exact optimization methods is their ability in handling large-scale instances within a reasonable time, albeit at the expense of losing a guarantee for achieving the optimal solution. Therefore, metaheuristic techniques are appropriate choices for solving NP-hard problems to near optimality. Since the parameters of heuristi...
متن کاملSimultaneous Detection of Arabis Mosaic Virus, Cherry Leafroll Virus and Cucumber Mosaic Virus with Coamplification of Plant mRNA as Internal Control for Olive Certification Programs
Background and Aims: Certification programs of plant propagating materials rely on faster, cheaper and more importantly sensitive and reliable methods for detection of systemic pathogens as indicated in national and/or international health standards of plant propagating materials. Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) has been documented as an alternative assay for certific...
متن کاملQuality documentation challenges for veterinary clinical pathology laboratories.
An increasing number of veterinary laboratories worldwide have obtained or are seeking certification based on international standards, such as the International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission 17025. Compliance with any certification standard or quality management system requires quality documentation, an activity that may present several unique challe...
متن کاملQuality assurance in veterinary diagnostic laboratories.
The authors discuss the responsibility of veterinary diagnostic laboratories as suppliers of analytical data for tests on animals and animal products. The guarantee of the quality of analytical data is a basic quality requirement for veterinary certification. It is therefore important for the laboratory to adopt operational quality assurance standards which are recognised internationally. The m...
متن کامل