The main purpose of this study is to investigate the impacts intellectual capital (IC) on firm’s performance. Using a sample 336 Czech firms, including 20 certified firms from European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) Excellence Model 2015 2019, current employed pooled regression test hypotheses. dummy variable and interaction terms are used relationship between components IC EFQM with ...

the present study aims to address the problem of inadequate coverage of various aspects of organizational performance by balanced scorecard (bsc) model through its developing based on the european foundation for quality management (efqm) model. to this end, a developed bsc model, encompassing variables of stakeholders, resource effectiveness, processes effectiveness, human resource management e...

The objective of the research presented in this paper is to identify relations and strength of relationships between elements of two models the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) and the EFQM Excellence model. For that purpose a framework, which indicates the relationships between the mentioned models, has been developed. The hypothesis to be tested is whether the EFQM Excellence model may be used as an ...

The improvement of the quality of the services is one of the primary sources of competitive advantage in health care organizations. As customers typically search for higher quality of care when choosing treatments, health plans and providers, the health care organizations strive to improve the quality of care and patient safety and satisfaction, as primary goals, with the resources that are ava...

The main aim of the current study is to explore relationship between working capital (WC) and firm performance. We chose a sample 326 Czech firms, including 20 certified firms from EFQM (European Foundation for Quality Management) Excellence Model Albertina database. was taken three sectors: manufacturing, automobile, construction. employed two-step system generalized method moment (GMM) techni...

introduction: medical libraries and information centers, as service organizations, need standard tools and methods to be able to measure and increase quality of their services, so as to be able to meet the needs of their users in support of the improvement of the performance of their parent institutions. methods: one of the available standard tools of quality measurement is the european foundat...

BACKGROUND Primary care teams are facing an increased need to develop quality programmes at local level. GPs must lead this process and promote a positive organizational culture if they want to achieve and maintain a continuous improvement of the service. OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to test the applicability and reliability of the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQ...

ISO 9001 and ISO 9004 were created as a “consistent pair” of standards so that businesses that wanted to exceed the requirements of 9001 could use the principles of 9004 to move towards business excellence. In this paper, opinions from Canadian quality standardization experts were used to explore the needs of business against what is offered by ISO 9004 and to assist in the comparison of ISO 90...