The ISO 9000 series of quality management systems standards, introduced in 1986, has been adopted at over 560,000 locations worldwide. Anecdotal evidence suggests that firms can achieve internal benefits such as quality or productivity improvements, or that certification can help firms maintain or increase their market share, or both. Others argue that the standard is too generic to cause perfo...

There has ben a major push by firms to seek certification to the International Quality Standards ISO 9000. This heightened interest is not without problems as many managers have misunderstood the value of seeking ISO 9000 certification. A review of the literature revealed a major gap in research in this area of quality management. Therefore, the aim of this study is to examine the role of the n...

Trade policy is an important topic in global public policy. It is recognized that trade is hampered when buyers have incomplete information about the offered products, a problem accentuated in the international markets by the physical and cultural distances between buyers and sellers. Buyers look for proxies to assess product quality, and exporters that can provide assurance about quality gain ...

A computational enterprise model representing key facets of an organization can be an effective tool to consider when planning an enterprise information architecture. For example, a specific organization's quality management business processes and organizational structures can be represented using such a model, and then compared to a reference model of "good" processes and structures, such as t...

1 Growing at unimagined rates, the information and communication technologies (ICT) industry is facing ever-increasing challenges from the complexity of interconnected services and the expectations of users. The TL 9000 Quality Management System (QMS) drives efficiency and performance across the ICT global supply chain, tracks performance, improves results, reduces the cost of doing business, a...

This article records the empirical research that investigates the reasons behind, practices and effects of ISO 9000 certification and Total Quality Management (TQM) implementation in small and medium-sized (SME) and large manufacturing companies. The research is based on a survey of 180 Norwegian manufacturing companies. The main findings are (1) the SMEs implement ISO 9000 standards and TQM ma...

This paper develops and tests several hypotheses relating to ISO 9000 quality system certification process using data collected in a cross-sectional study undertaken in Australia. Multivariate analysis is used to analyse the quantitative data and test the hypotheses. Our findings show that there is a significant and positive relationship between the manager's motives for adopting ISO 9000 certi...

Many companies invest great efforts into achieving appropriate organization and through it better quality of products and services. They try to achieve this in a systematic way following the standard iso 9000. Implementing iso is a management decision that requires consideration of company’s operations, strategy, staff and, most importantly, customers. The theoretical part of the research is fo...

T ISO 9000 series of quality management systems standards, introduced in 1986, has been adopted at over 560,000 locations worldwide. Anecdotal evidence suggests that firms can achieve internal benefits such as quality or productivity improvements or that certification can help firms maintain or increase their market share, or both. Others argue that the standard is too generic to cause performa...

ISO 9000:2000 is the latest version of the quality standard developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). The standard aims to evaluate a firm’s ability to effectively design, produce, and deliver quality products and services. This version of the standard tries to enhance customer satisfaction by including more top-management involvement and continual improvement. Desp...