Bharti’s case is an example of making production and operational activities of the company a winning strategy. Though Bharti is in the telecom service sector, the same is true in the case of the manufacturing sector. In the manufacturing sector also, a company can manage and control its...

Lean quality strategy (LQS) is a powerful and systematic approach widely recognized for improving the organizational processes and thus, increases organizational effectiveness. The debate has been centered that LQS is a key ingredient in operationalizing the organizational functions. Further,...

Radio broadcasts, TV shows and online media make a significant contribution to day-to-day consumer information and have a great impact on public opinion. The present study provides an overview of the German reporting about the quality standards of the agri-food industry in the context of the...

The study researches the applied principles to achieve Total Quality Management (TQM) at healthcare institutions. Main elements elaborated in accordance with field specialists and international standards. These principles, elements, and the associated processes were reflected on the healthcare...

With ample data floating in and around enterprises today, Analytics has become an integral part of almost every business process, decision, and action. However, the effectiveness, efficiency, and reliability of analytics services is governed by the quality of data in information systems. Also...

Business Process Reengineering & Total Quality Management both aim to increase organizational efficiency, but attempt to do this through very different means. The purpose of this paper is to compare two approaches to the management of organizational change, BPR and TQM. In order to achieve this...

Egypt has a unique and complex audit market in which companies could use multiple audit mechanism through which a company can engage more than one audit firm to verify same financial statements. This mechanism could be conducted through joint audits or dual audits. Joint audits could be...

This study seeks to determine the role of audit firms' quality control (QC) system deficiencies, as measured by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) inspection program, on audit quality and profitability. Using a unique dataset of firm-wide QC deficiencies identified by the...

Using a comprehensive sample of audits for public companies in China, we demonstrate whether and how bad audit behavior spreads among individual auditors (i.e., CPAs). CPAs are deemed to be “diseased” during the period when their audits fail, and are subsequently sanctioned by the...

Total quality management is an endless journey in pursuit of a delighted customer. In recent years, the word “quality” itself has changed meaning. It has come to mean more than the reliability and price/performance of a product or service, as essential as those are. It encompasses every...