On the inclusion of sustainability and digitalisation in quality management : an overview from past to present
| Autor: | Thomas Persson Slumpi, Karin Ahlin, Anna Mårtensson, Daniel Carnerud |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Quality management
Process management media_common.quotation_subject Maskinteknik 0502 economics and business Quality (business) digitalisation media_common sustainable business excellence Business Administration Företagsekonomi Sustainable development Total quality management sustainable development Mechanical Engineering 05 social sciences artificial intelligence sustainability General Business Management and Accounting Sustainability 050211 marketing Business total quality management Inclusion (education) 050203 business & management quality management |
| Popis: | The aim of this study is to explore whether trends in sustainability and digitalisation from the 1980s until today have left any significant practical or epistemological footprints on the quality management paradigm. The study design consists of a mixed-methods approach that applies a data-mining methodology and content analysis to the digital archives of eight scientific journals: six within the quality management (QM) domain and two with a focus on operations management (OM). The data set contains an unbroken time series of over 12,000 research paper abstracts, the first of them published in 1980, giving the study a coverage of almost 40 years. The findings show that sustainability came onto the scholarly scene in 1996 and has since become an increasingly popular research area. In regard to digitalisation, the story is quite different, as the concept is currently absent from the scholarly QM and OM literatures. However, a search for information technology (IT) and information systems (IS) revealed that these topics have been gaining attention since the 1980s. However, it was found that QM research only addresses one part of digitalisation, omitting several interesting dimensions. One example is that the QM and OM literatures address IS mainly in relation to standardised guidelines and business processes within organisations. At the same time, we found a handful of studies combining QM and topics related to modern digitisation, like social media. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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