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Macau Periodical Index (澳門期刊論文索引)
- Author
- Teixeira, António; António, Nelson
- Title
- Theoretical and historical framework underlying the qualstrategy model
- Journal Name
- Euro Asia Journal of Management
- Pub. Info
- Jun. 2008, Vol.18, No.1, pp. 37-50
- Abstract
- Abstract : The authors have been studying the relationships between quality and strategic management since the early 1990s. Their recent development of an integrated model, QualStrategy, was preceded by the analysis of both areas' roots, in order to accomplish a sound solution resistant to erosion agents created by the continued evolution of environmental complexity and management thought. Beyond the presentation of QualStrategy itself the authors consider useful to share the results of this preparatory analysis which puts into perspective the relationships betweetn quality management and strategic thought, as a form to devise a theoretically sound way to build a strategic framework within quality management playing the role of a management paradigm. The authors found that the paradigmatic perspective is widely accepted and is an adequate tool to support this type of analysis and that the mainstream linking these two subjects is the concept of learning organization, a common root derived from the pragmatic philosophical current, although, in each case, the direct influence comes from different authors, Clarence Lewis in the case of quality management and John Dewey in the case of strategy. Paragraph Headings: 1. Introduction 2. Paradigm and schools of strategic thought 3. Which strategy for quality management? 4. Conclusion Figures: 1. Paradigm shift 2. Wrong comparisons 3. Comparison of cores and peripheries 4. Comparison of cores and peripheries 5. The new way to look at the activity of originations 6. The helix of improvement 7. Strategy formation and levels of complexity