Total Quality Management and Just-in-Time Purchasing

Table of contents

1. Cover
2. Title
3. Copyright
4. Dedication
5. Contents
6. TABLES
7. ILLUSTRATIONS
8. PREFACE
9. ORGANIZATION OF THE BOOK
10. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
11. INTRODUCTION
    1. Statement of Problem
    2. Theoretical Foundation
    3. Significance of Research
    4. Definition of Terms
    5. Chapter Summary
12. LITERATURE REVIEW
    1. Innovation, Strategy and Performance
    2. JIT Purchasing as a Strategic Innovation
    3. Total Quality Management (TQM) as a Strategic Innovation
    4. The Relationship between JIT Purchasing and TQM, and their Effects on Performance: A Research Model and Proposed Hypotheses
    5. Chapter Summary
13. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODOLOGY
    1. Target Population and Survey Procedure
    2. Validity Issues in Brief
    3. Construction of the Instrument and Measures
    4. Pilot Testing
    5. Analyses of Measures
    6. Restated Hypotheses
    7. Data Analysis Techniques
    8. Chapter Summary
14. RESULTS OF DATA ANALYSES
    1. Descriptive Statistics and Assumptions of Multivariate Tests
    2. Test of the Research Model
    3. Procedure of Hierarchical Regression Analysis of Sets
    4. Post Hoc Power Analysis
    5. Chapter Summary
15. DISCUSSION AND IMPLICATIONS OF FINDINGS
    1. Discussion of Results of Hypotheses Tests
    2. Validity of Findings
    3. Proposed Research Variables and Revised Research Model
    4. Implications of the Study
    5. Future Research Implications
    6. Summary
16. APPENDIX A
17. APPENDIX B
18. APPENDIX C
19. APPENDIX D
20. APPENDIX E
21. APPENDIX F
22. REFERENCES
23. DISSERTATION REFERENCES
24. NAME INDEX
25. SUBJECT INDEX