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A Study on Quality Innovation Movements of the Small & Medium-sized Company within the Framework of the cooperation with the Large-sized Company - Focused on the Single PPM Movement -

Kim, Ju-Mi (중소기업연구원)
Chang, Young-Soon (명지대학교 경영학과)

Publication Information

Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science / v.9, no.1, 2007 , pp. 133-144 More about this Journal

Abstract

Quality management has been applied to the industry for strengthening the competitiveness regardless of the size of company. However, it has been argued that the operational models for quality management used in the large-sized enterprise could not be applied to the small & medium-sized enterprise (SME) directly. This paper analyzes the states and outcomes of movements for quality innovation in the SME and tries to give some suggestions for improving and spreading the movements within the framework of the cooperation with the large sized company. Survey results show that the preferable quality movements depends on the size of company. Especially, the Single PPM movement is most preferable in the SME. It contributes th decreasing the fraction defective and to vitalizing the communication and cooperation between large-sized company and SME.

Keywords

Quality management; Single PPM; Six sigma; Small and Medium-sized company; Cooperation between large and small & medium-sized companies;

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