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Pimentel, L. & Major, M. (2014). Key success factors for quality management implementation. In Dahlgaard-Park, Su Mi Dahlgaard, Jens J. (Ed.), 17th QMOD−ICQSS Proceedings. Prague: Lund University Library Press.

L. P. Pimentel and M. J. Major,  "Key success factors for quality management implementation", in 17th QMOD−ICQSS Proc., Dahlgaard-Park, Su Mi Dahlgaard, Jens J., Ed., Prague, Lund University Library Press, 2014, vol. 2

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TY  - CPAPER
TI  - Key success factors for quality management implementation
T2  - 17th QMOD−ICQSS Proceedings
VL  - 2
AU  - Pimentel, L.
AU  - Major, M.
PY  - 2014
CY  - Prague
UR  - https://www.ism.lu.se/en/sites/ism.lu.se.en/files/qmod_2014_final_program_with_welcome_20140819.pdf
AB  - Purpose: This paper aims to identify the crucial factors that induce successfully a 
quality management process implementation. Particularly, it intends to examine how 
total quality management (TQM) can be fully achieved by implementing in 
organisations specific items, frameworks or factors, duly integrated into a procedural 
sequence. 
Methodology/Approach: The paper adopts an explanatory longitudinal case study, using 
a multiple-case research design (Yin, 2009) to support the investigation. The study deals 
with the implementation of a quality management programme (QMP), linked to 
organizational change and delivering excellence, in several Government agencies 
supervised by a specific Ministry in Portugal. The case study comprises three different 
field sites where the results and outcomes of the QMP implementation were differently 
observed. The QMP was basically translated into TQM (encompassing the common 
assessment framework - CAF, ISOs, or quality manuals). Collection of evidence 
comprised the conduct of 64 interviews (in three phases, between January 2010 and 
May 2014), and data and written documentation analysis. The study was built on quality 
management literature, highlighting the contributions of Oakland (2004, 2011) and 
Oakland and Marosszeky (2006). 
Findings: The QMP implementation in the field sites showed different levels in 
outcomes and results. It was also found that the main items to deliver excellence, 
identified in the ‘Oakland TQM model’ (the 4 Ps and the 4 Cs), explain mostly the 
different perceptions of results and outcomes. Other items/factors were identified that 
can explain those differences, concretely power and collective involvement. 
Research implications: Borrowing from the ‘Oakland TQM model’, the paper enriches 
the literature on quality management by confirming the Oakland items as key factors to 
explain the achievement of quality management and TQM, particularly in organisations. 
The investigation also identified other factors that can help to explain the successful 
quality management implementation, namely power and collective involvement. 
Consequently, a refined ‘Oakland TQM model’ (Keating, 1995; Vaivio, 2007) is 
proposed, and a visualization of the interaction of the items/factors in an input-output 
perspective. These implications are important for academics and practitioners. 
Originality/Value of the paper: This study helps to synthesize the key factors to
successful implementation of quality management in organisations and to frame and 
link those factors to existing literature. Particularly, the success factors identified in the 
case study imply the proposal of a refined ‘Oakland TQM model’. Furthermore, the 
model is translated into an input-output interaction of those factors, representing the 
practical implementation process that was found in the study. Moreover, the paper 
analyses the implementation of quality management in three government agencies, 
constituting three field sites subject to the same environmental pressures. These field 
sites support a longitudinal comparative and explanatory case study, which has received 
so far little attention from literature on quality management. 
Key-words: Quality management; Total quality management; Quality management 
models; Explanatory case study
ER  -