each loan approved regardless of quality, which resulted in a large number of defaults several years later. BP, the oil … push low quality software into production in order to meet that deadline. Similarly, I have seen incentives (for meeting … budget numbers on a project) influence managers to eliminate planning and quality assurance in order to lower the cost of …

increases in fees, not decreases, which suggests that quality-based advertising took place, and not price-based advertising. In …

This dissertation includes three essays that consider the role of quality variation within agricultural production when … consumers are heterogeneous in their preferences for quality. The first essay, 'The Welfare Benefits of USDA Beef Quality … Certification Programs,' estimates the consumer welfare benefits from the increase in scope of USDA beef quality certification …

Total Quality Management (TQM) is widely adopted in industry and well studied in academe. It includes a philosophy and …

Ontology evaluation is the task of measuring the quality of an ontology. It enables us to answer the following main … question: How to assess the quality of an ontology for the Web? In this thesis a theoretical framework and several methods …

the trade name of the online database available commercially and internally to the organisation.Quality issues are … acknowledged by database producers but are often overlooked due to resource, technology and human constraints. The key quality … issues include contents, data quality, customer support and database structure. The objective of investigating these issues …

little attention given to managing the quality of a business process during its life cycle. This study addresses this gap by … providing a framework for organisations to manage the quality of business processes during different phases of the BPM life … research methodology. During the design science phase, the artifacts to model a quality-aware business process were developed …

Abstract Purpose Limited attention has been given to the stability of the dimensions of quality across different types … of Internet retailing. This study identifies four distinct categories of Internet retailing, develops a separate quality … measurement scale for each category then compares the dimensions of quality that emerged for each context. Methodology …

financial years.ivSurvey of the questionnaire shows average scores for productivity and quality. It isnoteworthy, that the … quality measure. Inaddition, the same variable shows r2 value of 0.42. A conclusion is that even thoughproductivity and … quality are highly correlated and show a highly positive relationship,there is a concern on quality in the company. A link can …

Internal audit quality is an issue of great importance to both the internal and external audit professions. PCAOB … function on both the internal and external auditors' evaluation of the quality of the internal audit function. To assess the … importance of the internal audit function's sourcing arrangement in the internal audit function's quality assessment, the …