This paper presents an empirical study, which examines the effectiveness of Total Quality Management (TQM) practices in R&D environments by demonstrating the effect of TQM practices on R&D performance in terms of product quality and product innovation. Despite numerous studies of the relationship between TQM and organisational performance, little research has been done on the relationship betwe...

This paper presents a comparative study on the relationship between implementing total quality management (TQM) and organisational characteristics (size, type of industry, type of ownership, and degree of innovation) in a newly industrialised country in South East Asia. Vietnam has become the 150th member of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) since January 2007, and this is the first empirical ...

Conceiving that Total Quality Management (TQM) is a process of embedding quality awareness at every step of production or service while targeting the end customer, we represent it as based on five cardinal principles of top management conviction, customer centric advancements of processes, benchmarking, relentless improvement, and strengthening the employee base. Lodged in the back-drop of incr...

This paper uses a sample of quality award winners to empirically test hypotheses that relate changes in operating income associated with effective implementation of total quality management (TQM) to various firm characteristics. The characteristics examined are firm size, the degree of capital intensity, the degree of diversification, the timing of TQM implementation, and the maturity of the pr...

This paper intends to investigate how corporations introduce and develop management information system (MIS ) and total quality management (TQM ) in facing the e-commerce era. Several 2009 national quality award winning firms will be used as individual cases for in-depth analysis. The development of a company’s MIS and TQM will be analyzed. In this study, we discover the development of MIS and ...