Sime Curkovic

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a set of measures of purchasing's competitive priorities, including unidimensionality, convergent validity, discriminant validity, and reliability, which satisfy key measurement criteria.

TL;DR: A large gap exists between the ERM supporters and the users of ERM tools in terms of expectations, perceptions and orientations toward ERM principles, practices and tools, and the authors propose a process map to overcome some of the many obstacles preventing effective integration of environmental criteria into the design process.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the extent of fit between the factors of the MBNQA and their measures and evaluate the extent to which these factors really do capture this important higher-level construct known as TQM.

TL;DR: From analyses of the direct effects of 10 quality action programs on six firm performance outcomes, as well as their indirect effects through eight quality performance dimensions, two routes from action programs through quality performance to firm performance in the automotive supply industry are identified.

TL;DR: In this article, case-based research is used to address the competing views of the ISO 14001 standard to show that ISO registration can be leveraged across the supply chain into a competitive advantage.