Quality management and manufacturing strategies in China

Lee, Choong Y.; Zhou, Xiaomu

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“…This will contribute toward a high quality in terms of wood materials and design of furniture products. This is consistent with Lee and Zhou's (2000) study, which suggested that there is a significant association between quality practices and strategy, which eventually influences business practices and performance.…”

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“…In addition, product quality must be maintained in order to enhance promotion adaptation activities. This contention was supported by Lee and Zhou (2000), who noted that firms which are more likely to do business globally and link officially with foreign firms tend to be more quality conscious. These firms are concerned more with product identity compared with more traditional firms.…”

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Export Performance on the Malaysian Wooden Furniture Industry: An Empirical Study

Adis

2010

Journal of International Food & Agribusiness Marketing

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There has been a significant increase in the quantity and quality of international and export marketing research with respect to effective solutions toward export performance. However, an investigation on the impact of marketing strategy and export performance in a single industry is lacking. In addition, the influence of environmental factors to moderate the relationship between export marketing strategy and export performance has received little agreement. This research aims to investigate the relationship between export marketing strategy and export performance in the Malaysian wooden furniture industry as well as the influence of the moderating role of environmental factors on the relationship between export marketing strategy and export performance. Personal, mail, and phone interview methods were used to measure export marketing strategy, newly developed environmental factor variables (which consist of the global economic situation and certification), and export performance. The findings show that there is no direct relationship between export marketing strategy and export performance. Uniquely, the moderating effect of certification appears to moderate a few relationships between product and promotion adaptation, distribution strategy, design strategy, and target market specification on export performance. Managerial implications and suggestions for future research are also discussed.

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Export Performance on the Malaysian Wooden Furniture Industry: An Empirical Study

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2010

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“…Mandel et al (2000) noted the significance of quality as a factor of international TQM principles competitiveness. This is also true for China (Lee and Zhou, 2000). However, whilst Chinese quality management officials have noted the success of quality in Japan, USA, and Europe, they have also noted that there are many quality problems in China.…”

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“…Despite the increasing importance of quality in China, there is only a limited amount of literature on the topic (Tansey et al, 2001;Tuan and Ng, 1998). For example, Lee and Zhou (2000) compared manufacturing companies that used TQM with those without conventional TQM. Zhang et al (2000) considered quality in manufacturing industries in the Liaoning district, whilst Sun (2000) reported on quality motivation.…”

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Total quality management principles and practices in China

Anderson

Harrison

2003

International Journal of Quality &Amp; Reliability Management

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation.Abstract Considers the role and practices of total quality management in China. After a brief overview, considers the evolution of quality practices and the links to economic reform in China. From the quality literature, develops a measuring instrument to assess the extent and pervasion of quality practices in China. Then applies this instrument to 428 Northern Chinese companies representing different forms of ownership. Finds that the implementation of quality was highly variable. In general, joint venture companies scored highly in quality practices, in contrast, state owned enterprises scored poorly. Privately owned companies also scored well in some aspects of quality implementation. Concludes that the poor quality performance of state owned companies can be attributed to the attitudes and structures created during the period of the command economy.

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“…A later study by, [2] also found that there were differences in quality management effectiveness when organisations in western countries are compared to their Asian counterparts. However, increased levels of outsourcing as well and increasing levels of demands for quality products by customers implies that manufacturers in developing economy countries such as China need to pay increasing attention to their quality management systems [3].…”

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Factors affecting product quality and reliability: A comparison of developed and developing countries

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Adebanjo

Ahmed

2014

2014 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management

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-Increasing global competition has led to the need for organisations to continually improve their quality performance. In particular, developing countries such as China are focused on catching up with more developed countries. This study examines the relationships between improvement in three factors (health and safety conditions, worker motivation and satisfaction, work/life balance policies) in increase in product quality and reliability in developed countries. Based on a questionnaire, the study shows that improvement in health and safety conditions have a significant direct impact on increase in product quality and reliability while improvement in work/life balance do not have the same effect.

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Quality management and manufacturing strategies in China

Cited by 44 publications

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Export Performance on the Malaysian Wooden Furniture Industry: An Empirical Study

Export Performance on the Malaysian Wooden Furniture Industry: An Empirical Study

Total quality management principles and practices in China

Factors affecting product quality and reliability: A comparison of developed and developing countries

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