Determinants of quality management systems implementation in Tunisian firms

• Main Author: Olfa Hajjem
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Engenharia (FEUP) 2016-08-01
• Series: Journal of Innovation Management
• Subjects: quality management; ntic; iso 9000; seemingly unrelated regressions.
• Online Access: https://journalsojs3.fe.up.pt/index.php/jim/article/view/375

This research explores the impact of the firm’s internal and external attributes on its degree of implementation of quality management according to the ISO 9000 standard. This econometric study, based on the data gathered from a sample of Tunisian companies certified or in the course of certification in ISO 9001: 2000, reveals that the application of quality management depends on the organizational and environmental context of the company: a motivation rather internal than external to be certified, the application of ISO 9004 standard  recommendations, the adhesion of the company to the leveling program, size, investment in new technologies of information and communication and in technologies of analysis and measurement and the importance of innovation and quality criterion for customers.