Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify factors affecting agile supply chain and evaluate the effect of these factors on profitability. To that end, after reviewing the theoretical foundations of this field, the authors identified the factors affecting supply chain agility and...

This study has four main goals: (1) diagnosing the organizational culture of Tehran׳s pharmaceutical companies; (2) investigating the implementation of different categories of TQM in these companies; (3) comparing two models explaining the relationships among culture, TQM and performance; (4)...