Achieving Competitive Advantage through Quality Management (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)

This book examines the ways in which quality management methods, tools, and practices help improve an organization's performance and achieve sustainable competitive advantages. This volume includes quality techniques and tools such as the EFQM Model, SERVPERF model, E-S-Qual scale and the ISO 9001 certification and provide a wide variety of empirical studies in different economic sectors. In the current economic environment, characterized by economic turmoil and fierce competition, quality management has become a key strategy for organizations to overcome today's challenges. Organizations benefits from implementing quality management systems by following two approaches. First, they implement quality practices aimed at ensuring customer satisfaction by considering consumer expectations and establishing strategies accordingly. Second, organizations improve processes by establishing efficient and effective process management systems that improve productivity, lower costs, reduce unnecessary expenses, eliminate all non-value added activities, and ultimately maximize excellence and customer satisfaction. Quality management thereby provides tools, techniques, and methods for continuous process improvement in both the professional and academic worlds, which, when implemented by organizations in times of crisis, enable more effective administration of activities undertaken by managers. Containing contributions from various academics and scholars, this new book provides cutting edge research, methods and techniques providing a reference manual for academics, scholars, practitioners and policy-makers.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	July 2015
First published:	2015
Editors:	Marta Peris-Ortiz • Jose Alvarez-Garcia • Carlos Rueda-Armengot
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	312
Edition:	2015 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-17250-7
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Business strategy Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Management of specific areas > Production & quality control management Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Management of specific areas > Research & development management
LSN:	3-319-17250-6
Barcode:	9783319172507

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