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Making quality a fundamental part of strategy

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In this paper, the authors argue that quality is too important a factor to be left solely to quality control personnel or planners and is a fundamental part of the chief executive's responsibility for the development of strategy.
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This article is published in Long Range Planning.The article was published on 1985-02-01. It has received 40 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Strategic planning & Competitive advantage.

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Quality in the Service Sector: A Review

TL;DR: In this article, the importance of people and internal marketing in the changing environment of service industries, definitions and measurement of service quality, and the service quality/customer care programs presently being developed and implemented are reviewed and attention is focused on the importance and importance of human resources in the context of service industry.
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Service quality: An international comparison of bank customers’ expectations and perceptions

TL;DR: In this paper, empirical research findings from an investigation of consumer expectations and perceptions of service quality are presented from a survey conducted in the UK and US, where customers of banks indicated the importance of a range of elements of services quality and their perceptions of the service actually received.
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Total quality management: a literature review and an agenda for future research

TL;DR: A review, classification, and analysis of the research in TQM spanning the last two decades is presented in this paper, where a total of 226 articles are identified from 44 refereed management journals published from 1970 to 1993 and these articles are then classified and analyzed using the following two-dimensional scheme: (1) article orientation (conceptual, case study, empirical, analytical, simulation, and overview) and (2) article focus using the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award criteria.
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Quality in Retail Banking

TL;DR: In this paper, an alternative basis for modelling service quality based on the three dimensions of process/outcome, subjective/objective and soft/hard is described and modelled against the experimental data.
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In Search of Excellence

TL;DR: The CFA Association of Pakistan is such a platform and as members, your hand in organizing and promoting the society's activities can make all the difference: scholarships, university outreach programs, analyst certification programs, implementing global performance standards as discussed by the authors.
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Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices

TL;DR: A good deal of space has been devoted to top management and to the relationships between structure and strategy - topics that are not commonly considered in a book on management as mentioned in this paper, and that which every manager needs to know has been included in Drucker's book.
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