Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify critical aspects of quality management (QM) adoption in a small company. QM is more widely applied in large companies than in small ones. Previous research has pointed to QM ideas as sound and valid for small companies, but that many such...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify forces (in the form of converters and inhibitors) of Lean Six Sigma adoption by studying the gradual adoption of Lean Six Sigma in a medium-sized Swedish manufacturing company. The paper suggests how the converters and inhibitors interact...

In dieser Arbeit wird untersucht, wie Produktivitätsfortschritte in Organisationen durch die Verbesserung bestehender Organisationsstrukturen erzielt werden können. Ein Teil des Wissens über diese organisatorischen Verbesserungen erwerben Mitarbeiter auf lokaler Ebene durch die Ausführung...