Based on the surveys and investigation of 62 manufacturing companies in China, the paper analyzes the current status of quality management in Chinese manufacturing industry and probes the problems and their root causes. It presents strategies for improving quality management for Chinese manufacturing industry.

Despite the widespread adoption of business modeling techniques in academic research and business, no research has been done into how efficient and effective business modeling techniques document and communicate business models. This paper compares three visual business modeling techniques with a visual approach and identifies the strong and weak points of each modeling technique, based on appl...

The objective of this study is to understand how the Indian software industry has been able to catch up—successfully access, learn, and develop—to the technological standards of global leaders while others in the developing world lag behind. The focus of this study is on explaining factors that contributed to the phenomenal growth of software exports from India, including the role of institutio...

Der Beitrag evaluiert erstmals das Rahmenkonzept zur Verwaltungsmodernisierung „Verwaltung 4.0“, das als Diskussionsbeitrag und korrespondierender Handlungsrahmen zur Bundesinitiative „Industrie 4.0 für Wissenschaft und Verwaltungspraxis entwickelt wurde. Das Rahmenkonzept umfasst sechs Perspektiven mit korrespondierenden Komponenten. Kernergebnisse einer ersten empirischen Untersuchung werden ...

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OBJECTIVES Small enterprises have higher exposure to occupational hazards compared to larger enterprises and further, they have fewer resources to control the risks. In order to improve the working environment, development of efficient measures is therefore a major challenge for regulators and other stakeholders. The aim of this paper is to develop a systematic model for the design of tailored ...