Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine whether quality management information (QMI) can be a source of competitive advantage and should be managed strategically. Design/methodology/approach – Analysis of variance and regression techniques were applied to the database of the...

Including disaggregate variables or using information extracted from the disaggregate variables into a forecasting model for an eco- nomic aggregate may improve the forecasting accuracy. In this paper we suggest to use boosting as a method to select the disaggregate variables which are most...