TQM for Sustainable Development through NPD in Developing Countries

2012 ◽  
pp. 684-701
Author(s):  
Fasil Taddese ◽  
Hiroshi Osada
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Production Technology ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Market Competition ◽  
Development Costs ◽  
System Product ◽  
Sustainable Ecology ◽  
The Relationship

Challenged with intense market competition, developing countries are searching for methods to ensure sustainable development through business performance. In this regard, TQM and NPD play a major role. However, research is limited in the area of addressing the contextual link between TQM, NPD, and sustainable development. Therefore, this paper examines the relationship between the three and the outcome of the relationship. The results show that TQM in the context of NPD for sustainable development in developing countries focuses on adaptive products through incremental improvements on production technology, NPD system, product development, production process, and employee know-how. It is also found that TQM revolutionizes the conventional R&D system by enhancing innovation capabilities. It reduces development costs and time alleviating financial limitations. The results further reveal that process focus on the TQM framework has contributed to sustainable ecology management through various environmental management systems.

TQM for Sustainable Development through NPD in Developing Countries

2013 ◽  
pp. 201-218
Author(s):  
Fasil Taddese ◽  
Hiroshi Osada
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Production Technology ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Market Competition ◽  
Development Costs ◽  
System Product ◽  
Sustainable Ecology ◽  
The Relationship

Challenged with intense market competition, developing countries are searching for methods to ensure sustainable development through business performance. In this regard, TQM and NPD play a major role. However, research is limited in the area of addressing the contextual link between TQM, NPD, and sustainable development. Therefore, this paper examines the relationship between the three and the outcome of the relationship. The results show that TQM in the context of NPD for sustainable development in developing countries focuses on adaptive products through incremental improvements on production technology, NPD system, product development, production process, and employee know-how. It is also found that TQM revolutionizes the conventional R&D system by enhancing innovation capabilities. It reduces development costs and time alleviating financial limitations. The results further reveal that process focus on the TQM framework has contributed to sustainable ecology management through various environmental management systems.

TQM for Sustainable Development through NPD in Developing Countries

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 61-78
Author(s):  
Fasil Taddese ◽  
Hiroshi Osada
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Market Competition ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Environmental Management Systems ◽  
Know How ◽  
Development Costs ◽  
Sustainable Ecology ◽  
The Relationship

Challenged with intense market competition, developing countries are searching for methods to ensure sustainable development through business performance. In this regard, TQM and NPD play a major role. However, research is limited in the area of addressing the contextual link between TQM, NPD, and sustainable development. Therefore, this paper examines the relationship between the three and the outcome of the relationship. The results show that TQM in the context of NPD for sustainable development in developing countries focuses on adaptive products through incremental improvements on production technology, NPD system, product development, production process, and employee know-how. It is also found that TQM revolutionizes the conventional R&D system by enhancing innovation capabilities. It reduces development costs and time alleviating financial limitations. The results further reveal that process focus on the TQM framework has contributed to sustainable ecology management through various environmental management systems.

scholarly journals The Holy Grail

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 714-738 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Pereira-Moliner ◽  
Xavier Font ◽  
Juan José Tarí ◽  
Jose F. Molina-Azorin ◽  
Maria D. Lopez-Gamero ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Performance Levels ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Reference Measure ◽  
Environmental Capability ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Hotel Managers ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose – This paper aims to analyse the influence of environmental proactivity on cost and differentiation competitive advantages, and to explore the double relationship between environmental proactivity and business performance. Design/methodology/approach – The population consists of all three- to five-star hotels in Spain. A sample of 350 hotels was classified according to environmental proactivity and performance levels, employing a two-step cluster analysis. Significant differences between groups were examined. Findings – The results show two types of environmental behaviour (reactive and proactive), with proactive hotels developing significantly better on both cost and differentiation competitive advantage and achieving significantly higher performance levels. Hotels which achieve above average business performance levels are significantly more environmentally proactive. Research limitations/implications – The present paper demonstrates that environmental management is related to competitive advantages and business performance. Environmental management systems are more developed in higher category, chain-affiliated and larger hotels. This could be due to having more resources to develop their environmental capability. The environmental proactivity scale employed in this study is presented as a reference measure for hotel managers to benchmark their current practices and implement environmental improvements. Originality/value – First, measuring environmental proactivity using four managerial systems (operative, information, strategic and technical) is innovative and provides a more detailed approach to measuring environmental proactivity. Second, demonstrating a double association between environmental proactivity and performance provides fresh insights into the relationship between these variables.

Green Environment and Management

2018 ◽  
pp. 100-116
Author(s):  
Fatma Ince
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Management System ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Organizational Factors ◽  
Adaptation Strategy ◽  
Environmental Management System ◽  
Global Competition ◽  
Environmental Standards ◽  
Environmental Goals ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter on environmental management system (EMS) addresses the relationship between organizational factors and environmental goals. Because the increasing awareness about environment affects the related groups and forces the firms have an environmental approach. The global competition, regulations and other pressures can change the tools of the sustainability. So, the firms start to consider an environmental management system as an innovative instrument as well as an adaptation strategy. Because, environmental standards and policies give the firm an opportunity to improve the business performance. From this viewpoint, this chapter provides an overview of the context, organizational drivers and implementation of the EMS.

scholarly journals Does CSR Signal the Firm Value? Evidence from China

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (15) ◽  
pp. 4255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tao Bing ◽  
Meng Li
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Firm Value ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Dynamic Effect ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Over Time

Compared to the rapid development of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practices in developing countries, especially in China, the research about the effect of CSR on firm value has evolved more slowly. This paper examines the relationship between CSR and firm value used by listed Chinese companies from 2010 to 2017. The results for the whole sample show CSR significantly reduces firm value. Additionally, there are no significant differences for the effect of CSR on firm value between state owned enterprises (SOEs) and non-SOEs or sensitive industry and non-sensitive industry. To explore whether the relationship changes over time, we divided the period into two sub-periods. During 2010–2014, the results are similar with those obtained by the whole sample. However, the results significantly change during 2015–2017. Specifically, the negative and significant relationship between CSR and firm value becomes non-significant in the second sub-period. Compared to the weakening effect of CSR for non-SOEs on firm value, CSR for SOEs alleviates the effect, and CSR of SOEs increases firm value significantly. Similar results are obtained for non-sensitive industry and sensitive industry. The changes are the result of increasing awareness by government, companies, and investors on sustainable development after 2015. This finding enriches the research on the dynamic effect of CSR on firm value in developing countries.

scholarly journals Stakeholder Influences and Environmental Management Practices in Fleet Operations – A Research Agenda

2015 ◽  
Vol 773-774 ◽  
pp. 1360-1364
Author(s):  
Ai Chin Thoo ◽  
Lay Jie Tan
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Environmental Management Practices ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Fleet Operations

Relationship between stakeholder influences and environmental management practices has not yet received sufficient attention in academic research in Malaysian fleet operations. Due to the increased awareness and concern among stakeholders for environmentally friendly business processes, the two main stakeholder influences including regulatory pressures and customer pressures are considered in combination to ensure firms to behave ethically and socially responsible. Environmental management practices including effectiveness of policy, effectiveness of implementation and effectiveness of planning in environmental management are one of the effective ways of dealing with environmental risks and costs. However, there is a little empirical research on how practitioners define and incorporate stakeholder influences into overall environmental management practices, particularly in the context of fleet operations. As such, this paper proposes a model to include two stakeholder influences and three environmental management practices. It is expected that this paper will offer useful guidance for future research scholars to empirically examine the relationship between stakeholder influences and environmental management practices for sustained business performance.

scholarly journals Environmental Management Accounting and Environmental Performance

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rapiah Mohamed
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Current Practice ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
Management Accounting ◽  
Environmental Accounting ◽  
Environmental Management Accounting ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
A Company

This paper investigates the relationship between environmental management accounting (EMA) and environmental performance in the Malaysian small-medium (SMEs) sized manufacturing sector. The issue of environmental have affected many businesses regardless of the types and sizes of organisation. Ferreira et.al. (2010) argue that the use of EMA technique is not driven by the size of a company, but by the type of industry it relates to. EMA practices involve the tracking, tracing and treatment of costs, earnings and savings incurred in relation to the company’s environmental-related activities Burrit et. al. (2002),. Environmental accounting is still new in Malaysia and the managers and accountants are lack of knowledge in this matter (Jusoh et al., 2018), therefore it is need more empirical evidence on EMA practices especially in developing countries, such as Malaysia. Thus, this study is important to explain the current practice of EMA in SMEs and its influence on environmental performance.   The results reveal that the physical EMA has the highest mean compared to monetary EMA. The results show that the level of EMA practices are not at an encouraging level. The regression results indicate that both types of EMA practices (monetary and physical) have a positive significant effect on environmental performance.

scholarly journals Entrepreneurial Marketing Skills and Small-Scale Business Performance: The Case of Ghana

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-60
Author(s):  
Andrews Ayiku ◽  
E. Stephen Grant
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Quantitative Study ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Market Competition ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
Entrepreneurial Marketing ◽  
Modern Business ◽  
Day To Day Operations

The development of SMEs serves as a tool for creating employment opportunities in developing countries. SME growth can be attributed to how owners and managers use entrepreneurial marketing skills in their day-to-day operations. A quantitative study was used to gain an understanding of the application of marketing skills in SMEs and the development of SMEs in Ghana. Findings indicate that entrepreneurs acquire marketing skills during their years of operation, however, these skills are not in tune with modern business trends and market competition. Establishing marketing departments and equipping business owners with marketing skills enables their ability to deal with volatile consumer demands. Likewise, requisite marketing skills enable market understanding, new marketing approaches, and the design of demand driven products and services

Market orientation, learning orientation and business performance

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 623-648 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahmoud Abdulai Mahmoud ◽  
Charles Blankson ◽  
Nana Owusu-Frimpong ◽  
Sonny Nwankwo ◽  
Tran P. Trang
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Organizational Learning ◽  
Market Orientation ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Linear Regression Analysis ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Learning Orientation ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between market orientation, learning orientation and innovation; and second, assesses the role of innovation, market orientation and learning orientation on firms’ business performance using a developing country (i.e. the Ghanaian banking domain) as a study context. Design/methodology/approach – Following a nation-wide survey among senior managers of 28 banks in Ghana, five research propositions were tested using multiple linear regression analysis. Findings – Results demonstrate that market orientation has significant association with innovation while learning orientation has significant impact on innovation. Moreover, innovation mediates the relationship between market orientation and business performance. Research limitations/implications – This study adopt the cross-sectional research design and as such acknowledge the same limitations as other cross-sectional studies. Practical implications – The research will help bank executives especially in Ghana and other developing countries to appreciate these marketing variables. Social implications – Banks innovation efforts, concurrently with the development of market orientation culture and improvement in organizational learning processes must benefit bank customers and stakeholders as a whole. Originality/value – The research will help banks in Ghana and other developing countries to appreciate that their innovation efforts should concurrently be in sync with the development of market orientation culture and improvement in organizational learning processes.

Technology and Influence on Innovation

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 335-342
Author(s):  
Ruben Joaquim Pinto Loureiro ◽  
◽  
Jorge Manuel Marques Simões ◽  
Sílvio Manuel Valente da Silva ◽  
António Gabriel Simão de Castro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Improve Performance ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
Specific Objective ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
A Company

Innovation can be the key element of a company, yet it is dependent on business resources. The relationship between innovation and performance is addressed by several authors who advocate this theme as a driver to solve problems at the business level and subsequently improve performance. Innovation is essentially under great uncertainty, but little information exists about innovation in developing countries. The present research aims to add knowledge about innovation in developing countries, analyzing whether innovation improves business performance (influenced by technology). Thus, the research question is: What is the relationship between innovation and performance in companies? These hypotheses are related to a specific objective: to identify the factors that improve the company’s performance. Using secondary data obtained by the World Bank, and seeking to make known developments in innovation and the relationship with technology and performance in developing countries, the correlation of several variables was worked out in a first approach to the theme through an analysis factorial. It is concluded that there is no positive relationship between performance and innovation in developing countries.

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