An examination of quality management in Japan: Implications for management in the United States

1985 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 419-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maling Ebrahimpour
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Quality Management ◽  
The United States

scholarly journals Rescaling Air Quality Management: An Assessment of Local Air Quality Authorities in the United States

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 117862211984212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelsea A Schumacher ◽  
Vivek Shandas
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Quality Management ◽  
Institutional Design ◽  
The United States ◽  
Population Exposure ◽  
Air Quality Management ◽  
Underdeveloped Area ◽  
Clean Air ◽  
National Perspective

Institutional design for local air quality management is an underdeveloped area for research and practice. Although the United States has more than a century of organizational experience managing air quality at the Federal level, the recent years have seen a surge of interest in addressing municipal-scale solutions. Without information about the institutional designs, governance structures, and implications of localizing air quality management, practitioners may face challenges reducing population exposure to air pollutants. We offer a US national perspective on managing local air quality by assessing and surveying 117 local air quality authorities identified by the National Association of Clean Air Agencies. The results expose many commonalities and differences among local air quality management agencies across the United States. We find that the authority type and motivations for creating the local air quality agency drive much of the organization structure and capacity to fulfill mandates. The results further provide a means for evaluating the opportunities and challenges for creating local air quality agencies, while recognizing the factors that support effective institutional designs.

scholarly journals How to Build Quality Management in a Small to Medium Enterprise

10.28945/4099 ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 043-054
Author(s):  
Desmond (Tres) Bishop
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Quality Management ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
The United States ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Customer Expectation ◽  
Quality Movement ◽  
Medium Enterprise ◽  
Barriers To Implementation ◽  
Medium Enterprises

Quality management (QM) in one of its many forms has become an integral part of contemporary business. Since its mainstream introduction to the United States in the early 80’s it has become more than a strategy or a competitive differentiator. QM is now a customer expectation. Most of the voluminous research done in this field was conducted by large businesses for large businesses. However, the vast majority of businesses in the United States and the world at large are small to medium enterprises (SMEs). These organizations have largely been ignored by the quality movement. This study closes that gap by investigating what is currently known in this field by the academic and practitioner communities. The findings from this research study indicate that QM is appropriate to the SME environment. There are specific critical to success factors and barriers to implementation that are unique to SME’s that should be considered prior to implementation. Additionally, there is evidence to suggest that QM is not universal in nature as previously thought but context dependent. Most of the studies that were conducted were survey based. There was comparatively little qualitative research done in this field and no action research projects that this author could find which creates an opportunity for future research.

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