The purpose of this article is to define which organizational practices have significant impact on returns from new products or which foster or at least influence positively innovation. Survey responders were divided to see whether they innovated or not by the survey questions which explicitly asked...

This study focuses on the impact of standards in the supermarket sector of the food retail business. Led by the Standards, Productivity and Innovation Board (SPRING SG), the project was conducted on Singapore's largest supermarket retailer, ''NTUC FairPrice'', which has a network of over 240 outlets...

Iron and steel is one of the most important raw material industries in China. For this study, the Standardization Administration of the People's Republic of China (SAC) has chosen a large enterprise positioned in the downstream segment of the iron and steel industry value chain: ''Xinxing Ductile Ir...

For this study, the National Standardization of Indonesia (BSN) has chosenn a concrete manufacturing company ''PT WIKA Beton'', one of the largest subsidiaries of PT Wiyaya Karya (WIKA)', Indonesia's leading integrated EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Construction) and investment company. In 2008, ...

Purpose - To investigate the impact of EMS certification on the performance of firms, including economic and environmental aspects and perceived customer satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach - The purpose of this study is hypotheses testing in order to explain the variance in the dependent var...

Certification from the International Organization of Standardization (ISO) has recently become the fundamental requirement of businesses seeking to ensure continuous quality improvement. However, further evaluation is needed to ascertain whether those ISO certified enterprises could enhance their ov...

For the conduct of this study, the Standardization Association of Senegal (ASN) has chosen ''Water Senegal - SDE (Sénégalaise des Eaux)'', a private limited company with regional offices across the country. With over a thousand employees, SDE serves around 5 million people and operates within an ins...

This is a study conducted to determine the non-economic benefits of standards for the bus companies of the Shenzhen Transport Commission. The Commission is responsible for the management of transport in general. The study reveals how the introduction of an intelligent standards-based dispatching sys...

This is a study conducted to determine the non-economic benefits of standards developed by the Shenzhen LED Standards Alliance (LSA) for the LED lighting industry. The assessment focuses on three types of LSA member organizations: two manufacturers, three suppliers and one consumer of the LED lighti...

The South African Bureau of Standards chose to conduct an assessment on a cement manufacturing company, ''Pretoria Portland Cement Company Limited (PPC Cement)''. Comprised of eight manufacturing plants and three milling depots, the company is a reliable supplier to the civil, commercial and residen...

This is a study to determine the non-economic benefits of standards on the Shenzhen Meteorological Service Center (SMSC). In providing public meteorological information services, industrial meteorological safeguards and technical services for lightning protection, SMSC uses Chinese and internal comp...

The ISO 9001 standard for quality management has been implemented by more than 1,000,000 organizations worldwide. It has received a high degree of attention in existing literature. However, findings about the impact of ISO 9001 certification on financial performance are not consistent in the literat...

The Botswana Bureau of Standards (BOBS) chose to conduct the assessment of a brick manufacturing company ''Lobatse Clay Works'' with a view to determine whether standards had an impact in terms of cost savings and product quality. Lobatse Clay Works has an approximate 48% share of the domestic marke...

The company selected by the Sri Lanka Standards Institution (SLSI), ''Maga Engineering (Pvt)'', is a leading constructor employing over 180 engineers, including chartered engineers with wide experience in the technical and managerial aspects of the industry, both locally and overseas: The scope ...

Business process standardization is the activity of unifying different variants of a family of business processes. While the positive effects of business process standardization are well-described, it is often undesirable to fully unify different variants due to cultural, legal, or operational reaso...

We review and explore the role of standards in innovation, with particular emphasis on the design and manufacturing processes. We begin by defining and classifying standards and by exploring their role and infrastructure in society. This is followed by a similar discussion for innovation. By examini...

This is a case study conducted to determine the economic benefits of standards. The enterprise chosen for the study, Teckwah Industrial Corporation Ltd. (Teckwah), provides cost-effective solutions in printing & packaging, turnkey software manufacturing, value chain manufacturing and service part & ...

Several studies highlight the economic benefits of standards, while the benefit of taking part in standardization remains a rather unexplored mystery to date. In theory, standard setters not only benefit from the possibility to monitor and shape the development of standards but also access a wide...

As more forest entities worldwide consider pursuing Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification, a critical question remains on whether stand-level management impacts differ between certified and uncertified forests. To begin to answer this question, we measured forest structure on three FSC-cert...

Initiated by the Egyptian Organization for Standardization and Quality Control (EOS), this study has been conducted on a leading producer and distributor of packaged milk, juice and yogurt products in Eqypt: ''Juhayna Food Industries S.A.E''. With 3 860 employees at the time of the study, the compan...