Manager’s Beliefs About Quality Improvement: An Investigation On The Malaysian Electrical And Electronics Industry

As quality improvement is a highly controversial issue in the business community', it is interesting to see whether decisions about implementation are influenced by the managers’ beliefs about the effect of quality improvement on the companies’ market performance. This paper investigates man...

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Main Author: Mohamad Zailani, Suhaiza Hanim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Asian Academy of Management (AAM) 2000
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Online Access:http://eprints.usm.my/35453/1/5-1-5.pdf
http://eprints.usm.my/35453/
http://web.usm.my/aamj/5.1.2000/5-1-5.pdf
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Institution: Universiti Sains Malaysia
Language: English
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Summary:As quality improvement is a highly controversial issue in the business community', it is interesting to see whether decisions about implementation are influenced by the managers’ beliefs about the effect of quality improvement on the companies’ market performance. This paper investigates managers’ beliefs about quality improvement, which have promoted the growth of competitive advantage amongst Malaysian electrical and electronics companies that adopted the approaches to quality improvement of TQM or ISO 9000.