The QM evolution: Behavioral quality management as a firm’s strategic resource

Examining top management commitment to TQM diffusion using institutional and upper echelon theories

“…In turn the TMC has significant and positive effect on ACP, RO and ASM. Our findings partially support important literature (see, Ahire and Ravichandran, 2001;Cho et al 2017). However, organisations especially in the emerging economies have failed to align their organisational strategies to the prevailing environment.…”

“…The term "Total Quality Management" (TQM) denotes a set of tools, techniques, and procedures that are used to reduce or eliminate variation from a production process or servicedelivery system (Ebrahimi and Sadeghi, 2013;Akgün et al 2014;Cho et al 2017).…”

Improving the quality management of an enterprise in the field of underwater construction

“…General issues of quality management were devoted to their work V. I. Gissin, L. E. Basovskiy, J. Bourke, S. Roper [2], V. B. Protasiev, V. Yu. Gulenkov, Y. S. Cho, J. Y. Jung, K. Linderman [3], M. C. Kupriyanova, F. Taddese [4], L. Ilies, H. C. Salagean, I. Beleiu [5], J. M. Wu, X. D. Ling [6], J. Huang, Y. Bian, W. Cai [7] and others. The problems of developing the quality management of the enterprise in various aspects, including for Russian enterprises, were developed in the works of S. P. Konoplev, O. V. Kozhevina, V. M. Mishin and other authors.…”

Resource-Based Product and Process Innovation Model: Theory Development and Empirical Validation

“…However, previous OM scholars acknowledged the potential threat of a common method variance (CMV) on the validity of the survey results due to the self-reported nature of data [91,92]. Therefore, as ex-ante remedies for controlling CMV, we applied the following criteria to recruit appropriate survey participants; (i) the participant must have a full-time position in his/her organization, and (ii) the participant must be fully aware of his/her organization's resources and innovation activities, and (iii) if there are two or more respondents in the same organization, the survey participants are selected based on the position of the organization, that is, the top level information provider of the respondents [93,94]. We also asked respondents to participate in the survey anonymously to minimize the likelihood of CMV in the data [95].…”