Golhar, Damodar Y.; Deshpande, Satish P. - In: International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management 16 (1999) 7, pp. 714-722
This empirical study investigates productivity performance of Canadian (n = 43) and US (n = 95) manufacturers in the automotive parts industry (SIC 3714) that have implemented the total quality management (TQM) philosophy. We identify three different categories of productivity measures:...