Received: January 27, 2017 Revised: April 21, 2017 Accepted: July 04, 2017 Abstract: Background: The emphasis on “quality” in the design of a management system for an organization was originally introduced through the work of W. Edwards Deming [1] who initially developed his QI principles to help the Toyota Motor Company increase their sales by improving the quality of their product. However, h...

(a) David Cameron could refer to the British politician, the English actor or any other namesake. “The Ford Motor Company, founded in 1903 by Henry Ford, is one of the largest auto makers in the world. During a time of crisis throughout the auto industry in recent years, Ford emerged as the sole American automaker in a position to survive the steepest sales downturn in decades without a governm...

1 National Key Laboratory of Vehicle Transmission, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China; [email protected] (Y.W.); [email protected] (Y.Z.) 2 Transmission System Section, Powertrain Department, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation Motor Commercial Vehicle Technical Center, Shanghai 200432, China; [email protected] 3 The Forth Branch Company, Inner Mongolia First...

Daihatsu Motor Company, in conjunction with the Japan Electric Vehicle Association, also carried out a small-scale EV demonstration in Japan some 20 years ago. In recent years, Japanese corporations and researchers have conducted a succession of demonstrations of shared small EVs. Leading the way was Honda’s field trial of its Intelligent Community Vehicle System in 1998 at its Motegi recreatio...

Health care management within the USA operations of the Ford Motor Company is a substantial and critical enterprise. The company provides health care coverage for a population of 636,000 active employees, retirees and their dependents at a cost of US$1.5 billion annually. The company realizes that effective management of health care resources requires continuous improvement in the services for ...

In this study a directional output distance function which incorporates both desirable and undesirable output is employed to investigate the impact of privatization experienced by the Taiwan Motor Transport Company (TMTC). For the first time, we measure efficiency changes before and after privatization while treating transport risk as a joint but undesirable output. The empirical results demons...