India is attracting significant attention as an attractive location for manufacturing industries in recent times. There have been many studies that demonstrate the rapid productivity and technological growth of Indian manufacturing industries post‐ industrial liberalization. We focus on the...

We study the linkages between firm level quality initiatives such as Quality Management Systems (QMS) and Total Quality Management (TQM) and output productivity in the Indian auto component industry. We use externally validated quality certification and quality awards as proxies for QMS and TQM...