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Production and Operations Management 1992

THE QUALITY REVOLUTION

Robert E. Cole

University of California, Berkeley

Abstract

Our understanding of quality has undergone great changes over the last decade, propelled forward by the quality paradigm that has evolved in Japan. This paradigm has rendered obsolete the traditional quality‐cost trade off model. I outline the key elements responsible for forcing a new understanding of quality‐cost relationships.

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10.1111/j.1937-5956.1992.tb00343.x
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