Managerial approaches in the Quality management theory

1. Kodak Annual Report, 1984.

2. For an account of the origins and development of quality management, see:

D.A. Garvin, Managing Quality: The Strategic and Competitive Edge (New York: Free Press, 1988).

3. M. Walton, The Deming Management Method (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1986), pp. 140–144.

4. Ibid.

5. G. Bushe and A.B. Shani, Parallel Learning Structures (Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, 1991).

6. Annual Report, 1988, Texaco, Inc. (White Plains, New York, 1989), p. 24.

7. B. Rayner, “Trial-by-Fire Transformation: An Interview with Globe Metallurgical’s Arden C. Sims,” Harvard Business Review, May–June 1992, pp. 117–129.

8. E.E. Lawler, S.A. Mohrman, and G.E. Ledford, Employee Involvement and Total Quality Management (San Francisco, Jossey-Bass, 1992), p. 96.

9. J.M. Juran, Quality Control Handbook (New York: McGraw Hill, 1974).

10. HP Measures of Marketing Excellence, Hewlett-Packard, January 1989.

11. G. Taguchi and D. Clausing, “Robust Quality,” Harvard Business Review, January–February 1990, pp. 65–75.

12. W. Lazer, S. Murata, and H. Kosaka, “Japanese Marketing: Toward a Better Understanding,” Journal of Marketing 49 (1985): 69–81.

13. P.F. Drucker, “The Emerging Theory of Manufacturing,” Harvard Business Review, May–June 1990, pp. 94–102.

14. The best exposition of the economic model of the firm can be found in:

P. Milgrom and J. Roberts, Economics, Organization, and Management (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1992).

15. A. Rappaport, Creating Shareholder Value: The New Standard for Performance (New York: Free Press, 1986); and

T. Copeland, T. Koller, and J. Murrin, Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies (New York: John Wiley, 1990).

16. See Walton (1986), p. 55.

17. Ibid.

18. H. Simon, “Organizations and Markets,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 5 (1991): 35.

19. R. Hayes, S. Wheelwright, and K. Clark, Dynamic Manufacturing: Creating the Learning Organization (New York: Free Press, 1988).

20. M.C. Jensen, “The Eclipse of the Public Corporation,” Harvard Business Review, September–October 1989, pp. 61–75.

21. See R.M. Grant, Strategic Change and Restructuring within the Oil Industry (Milan: Franco Angeli, 1993), pp. 128–150; and

D. Quinn Mills, Rebirth of the Corporation (New York: Free Press, 1991), pp. 91–107.

22. T. Burns and G.M. Stalker, The Management of Innovation (London: Tavistock, 1961); and

H. Mintzberg, The Structuring of Organizations (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1979).

23. Juran (1974), pp. 203–204.

24. M. Hammer and J. Champy, Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution (New York: HarperBusiness, 1993).

25. A. Alchian and H. Demsetz, “Production, Information Costs, and Economic Organization,” American Economic Review 62 (1972), pp. 777–795.

26. J.F. Rockart and J.E. Short, “IT in the 1990s: Managing Organizational Interdependence,” Sloan Management Review, Winter 1989, pp. 7–17.

27. J.M. Juran, Managerial Breakthrough (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964).

28. K. Clark, R. Hayes, and S. Wheelwright, Dynamic Manufacturing (New York: Free Press, 1988).

29. R.M. Grant, “The Resource-Based Theory of Competitive Advantage: Implications for Strategy Formulation,” California Management Review, Spring 1991, pp. 114–135.

30. R. Coase, “The Nature of the Firm,” Economica 4 (1937): 386–405.

Abstract

In its current form, the Deming management method contains a prescriptive set of 14 points that serve as guidelines for appropriate organizational behavior and practice regarding quality management. Despite the apparent effect of these 14 points on both the industrial world and the practice of management theory around the world, there is little evidence of the role of the Deming management method in the formalization and advancement of management theory. Although its impact on management practice is clear, neither its theoretical contribution nor its theoretical base has yet to be articulated. Yes, there is a theory of quality management underlying the Deming management method, but at present, this theory is presented in the prescriptive form of these 14 points. We propose and articulate a theory of quality management to describe and explain the effects of adopting the Deming management method. This theory is based on the conceptual synthesis of Deming's writings, literature on the Deming management method, observations of practice, and, more specifically, the results of a Delphi study involving a panel of experts on the Deming management method. We trace the development of this method, position it within the context of theory, describe our theory formulation process, propose and explain an underlying theory of quality management, and offer implications for practice and further research.

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