Alive and kicking–but will Quality Management be around tomorrow? A Swedish academia perspective
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Vol. 16 No. 2 (2012)
Submitted
1 October 2012
Published
20 November 2012
Keywords:
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Quality Management, Business Excellence, Change Management, Total Quality, Management, Future
Abstract
The purpose of this article is to describe how Quality Management (QM) is perceived today by scholars at three Swedish universities, and into what QM is expected to develop into in twenty years. Data were collected through structured workshops using affinity diagrams with scholars teaching and performing research in the QM field. The results show that QM currently is perceived as consisting of a set of core of principles, methods and tools. The future outlook includes three possible development directions for QM are seen: [1] searching for a “discipline X” where QM can contribute while keeping its toolbox, [2] focus on a core based on the traditional quality technology toolbox with methods and tools, and [3] a risk that QM, as it is today, may seize to exist and be diffused into other disciplines.
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Dale, B. G., 1999. Managing quality. Oxford, Blackwell Publishers.
Dean, J. W. and Bowen, D. E., 1994. Management theory and total quality. Improving research and practice through theory development. Academy of Management Review, 19(3), pp.392-418.
Foley, K., 2004. Five essays on quality management. Presented in honor of Homer Sarasohn, Standards Australia International Ltd., Sidney.
Furusten, S., 1999. Popular management books — How they are made and what they mean for organisations, London, Routledge.
Giroux, H. and Landry, S., 1998. Schools of thought in and against total quality, Journal of Managerial Issues, 10(2), pp.183–203.
Hamschmidt J, and Dyllick T., 2001. ISO 14001 – Profitable? Yes! But is it eco-effective?, Greener Management International, 34(summer), pp.43-53.
Hellsten, U. and Klefsjö, B., 2000. TQM as a management system consisting of values, techniques and tools, TQM Magazine, 12(4), pp.238-244.
ISO 2010. Guidance on Social Responsibility (ISO 26000:2010, IDT).
Kautto P., 2006. New instruments – old practices? The implications of environmental management systems and extended producer responsibility for design for the environment. Business Strategy and the Environment, 15(6), pp.377-388.
Kroslid, D., 1999. In search of quality management. Rethinking and reinterpreting. Doctoral thesis. Division of Quality Technology and Management, Linköping University.
Könnölä, T. and Unruh, G. C., 2007. Really changing the course: the limitations of environmental management systems for innovation, Business Strategy and the Environment, 16(8), pp.525-537.
Lillrank, P., 1995. The transfer of management innovations from Japan, Organization studies, 16(6), pp.971–989.
Oakland, J. S., 1993. Total Quality Management. The route to improving performance, 2nd ed. Oxford, Butterworth-Heinemann.
Pettersen, J., 2009. Defining lean production: some conceptual and practical issues, The TQM Journal, 21(2), pp.127 – 142.
Poksinska, B., Pettersen, J., Elg, M., Eklund, J. and Witell, L., 2010. Quality improvement activities in Swedish industry: drivers, approaches, and outcomes, International Journal of Quality and Service Sciences, 2(2), pp.206–216.
Pyzdek, T., 1999. A road map for quality beyond control, Quality Progress, 32(12), pp.33-38.
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Rogers, E.M., 1995. Diffusion of innovations, New York, Free press.
Røvik, K.A., 2000. Moderna organisationer: trender inom organisationstänkandet vid millennieskiftet. Malmö, Liber. (In Swedish).
Røvik, K.A., 2007. Trender og translasjoner: Ideer som former det 21. århundrets organisasjon. Oslo, Universitetsforlaget (In Norwegian).
Sahlin, K. and Wedlin, K., 2008. Circulating Ideas: Imitation, Translation and Editing. In: Greenwood, R., Oliver, C., Sahlin-Andersson, K. and Suddaby, R., eds. 2008,
The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism, London; California; New Delhi; Singapore: SAGE Publications, pp.18-242.
Schylander, E. and Martinuzzi, A., 2007. ISO 14001 – Experiences, effects and future challenges: a national study in Austria, Business Strategy and the Environment, 16(2), pp.133-147.
Shiba, S., Graham, A. and Walden, D., 1993. A new American TQM. Four practical revolutions in management. Portland, Oregon, Center for Quality Management. Productivity Press.
Sila, I. and Ebrahimpour, M., 2002. An investigation of the total quality management survey based research published between 1989 and 2002, International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management, 19(7), pp.902-970.
Young, J. and Wilkinson, A., 2001. Rethinking total quality management, Total Quality Management, 12(2), pp.247-258
van der Wiele, A., Williams, A.R.T. and Dale, B.G., 2000. Total Quality Management. Is it a
fad, fashion or fit?, Quality Management Journal, 7(2), pp.65-79.
Zobel, T., 2008. Characterization of the environmental policy implementation in an EMS context: a multiple case study in Sweden. Journal of Cleaner Production, 16(1), pp.37-50.
Zobel, T., 2010. Exploring the influence of organisational characteristics on benefits of environmental management systems. Proceedings of 13th QMOD Conference on Quality and Service Sciences ICQSS, Cottbus, Germany, August 30 – September 1.
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Bergquist, B. (2012). Alive and kicking–but will Quality Management be around tomorrow? A Swedish academia perspective. Quality Innovation Prosperity, 16(2), 01–18. https://doi.org/10.12776/qip.v16i2.53
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