{"title":"Total quality management and sustainable competitive advantage","authors":"Richard Reed , David J Lemak , Neal P Mero","doi":"10.1016/S1084-8568(00)00010-9","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1084-8568(00)00010-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Although it is generally accepted that Total Quality Management (TQM) can generate a sustainable competitive advantage, there is, surprisingly, little or no theory to underpin that belief. Therefore, the primary purpose of this paper is to explore the validity of the claim. By drawing on the market-based theory of competitive advantage, resource-based theory of the firm, and systems theory, we are able to conclude that the belief is warranted. We deduce that the content of TQM is capable of producing a cost- or differentiation-based advantage, and that the tacitness and complexity that are inherent in the process of TQM have the potential to generate the barriers to imitation that are necessary for sustainability.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100829,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quality Management","volume":"5 1","pages":"Pages 5-26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1084-8568(00)00010-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88816723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An application of Thompson's typology to TQM in service firms","authors":"David J. Lemak, R. Reed","doi":"10.1016/S1084-8568(00)00013-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S1084-8568(00)00013-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100829,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quality Management","volume":"12 1","pages":"67-83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78988402","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An application of Thompson's typology to TQM in service firms","authors":"David J Lemak , Richard Reed","doi":"10.1016/S1084-8568(00)00013-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S1084-8568(00)00013-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This work is based on the premise that service firms are different. The involvement of customers in the provision of services not only creates an uncertainty that makes service organizations different from manufacturing firms, but, within the broad classification of service organizations, they can also be different from each other. In line with previous research on service firms, we use Thompson's [Thompson, J.D. (1967). <em>Organizations in action</em>. New York: McGraw-Hill] typology of interdependence (pooled, sequential, and reciprocal) as a useful framework for addressing those differences. We deduce that components of TQM content and TQM process should vary according to an organization's degree of interdependence if output uncertainty, expressed in terms of service quality, is to be minimized. Thus, the success of TQM in service organizations is dependent upon the fit among interdependence and the strategy's content and process.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100829,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quality Management","volume":"5 1","pages":"Pages 67-83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1084-8568(00)00013-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91696762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Creating an empowering culture: examining the relationship between organizational culture and perceptions of empowerment","authors":"Tracey Honeycutt Sigler , Christine M Pearson","doi":"10.1016/S1084-8568(00)00011-0","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1084-8568(00)00011-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A study of front line employees in four textile plants located in the Southeastern United States is used to examine how organizational culture may support empowerment efforts. Our results indicate that organizational cultures that were perceived as being more collective and more doing-oriented were related to significantly greater perceptions of empowerment. Power distance was related to empowerment and organizational commitment in unexpected ways. Implications for both theory and practice are discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100829,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quality Management","volume":"5 1","pages":"Pages 27-52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1084-8568(00)00011-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73721599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Predicting the trajectory of manufacturing quality with work team implementation","authors":"Joy M. Field, K. K. Sinha","doi":"10.1016/S1084-8568(00)00015-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S1084-8568(00)00015-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100829,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quality Management","volume":"1 1","pages":"103-118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82869894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From the editor","authors":"Robert Cardy","doi":"10.1016/S1084-8568(00)00017-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S1084-8568(00)00017-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100829,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quality Management","volume":"5 1","pages":"Pages 1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1084-8568(00)00017-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136477760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The effect of quality management and participation in decision-making on individual performance","authors":"Shmuel Stashevsky, Dov Elizur","doi":"10.1016/S1084-8568(00)00012-2","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1084-8568(00)00012-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The major objective of the study was to analyze the effects of total quality management (TQM) on improvement efforts and individual performance. Employee response to quality management (QM) and the perceived degree of participation in decision-making (PDM) were considered the major factors affecting employee improvement efforts. The improvement effort factor was expected to influence employee performance. Subjects were 208 employees in three industrial organizations applying TQM in Israel. Three causal models were suggested and tested by means of structural equation modeling using <span>lisrel</span>. The results supported the proposed model. The findings revealed that the influence of PDM on improvement efforts is considerably higher than that of QM. This finding suggests that PDM is the most important component of the TQM process that affects improvement efforts and individual performance. Therefore, ISO 9000 that does not include PDM may not impact individual performance.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100829,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quality Management","volume":"5 1","pages":"Pages 53-65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1084-8568(00)00012-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87026213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Human resource management and Deming's continuous improvement concept","authors":"Mitchell Langbert","doi":"10.1016/S1084-8568(00)00014-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S1084-8568(00)00014-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article presents a loss minimization or continuous improvement model for human resource management (HRM). Minimization of losses arising from the interaction of two critical human resource (HR) quality targets, commitment and equity, requires ‘profound knowledge’ of social processes and the development of HR systems. The history of HR can be interpreted as a social continuous improvement process that makes use of four systems approaches: trust, bureaucracy, unionization, and regulation. Variance-minimizing tools that were appropriate for earlier phases of HR history (characterized by higher levels of HR loss) may be too blunt for the level of commitment industry now demands. Enterprise or company unionism may be a preferable quality management tool, although the National Labor Relations Act inhibits its adoption.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100829,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quality Management","volume":"5 1","pages":"Pages 85-101"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1084-8568(00)00014-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90019918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Technology and quality improvements in Mexican companies: some international comparisons","authors":"W. Nasierowski","doi":"10.1016/S1084-8568(00)00016-X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S1084-8568(00)00016-X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100829,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quality Management","volume":"41 1","pages":"119-137"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77564409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}