Innovative culture and total quality management as a tool for sustainable competitiveness: a case study of Turkish fruit and vegetable processing industry

dc.authorid0000-0002-5178-8948
dc.authorid0000-0002-9818-6012
dc.authorid0000-0003-2973-5118
dc.contributor.authorAkgüngör, Sedefen_US
dc.contributor.authorCamgöz Akdağ, Haticeen_US
dc.contributor.authorTuncay Çelikel, Aslıen_US
dc.date.accessioned2026-03-24T10:12:34Z
dc.date.available2026-03-24T10:12:34Z
dc.date.issued2002-01-04
dc.departmentIşık Üniversitesi, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi, İşletme Bölümüen_US
dc.departmentIşık University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Managementen_US
dc.description.abstractThe paper aims to explore the dimensions of quality management practices as a tool for innovativeness and determine the which dimensions of the quality management practices best differentiates the firms with low innovative culture from the firms with high innovative culture. A mail survey with a sample of processed fruit and vegetable product exporters in Turkey was conducted using a structured questionnaire. Factor analysis is used to reduce the 22 total quality management practices into a smaller set of dimensions. The resulting dimensions (factors) were used as independent variables for discriminant analysis. Discriminant analysis follows from the findings of previous research in which two independent firm clusters were identified through cluster analysis using quality management variables. Following the cluster definitions of the previous research, the dependent variable of the discriminant function measures whether the firm is characterized by low innovativeness or high innovativeness. Factor analysis reduced 22 quality management practices into 6 factors. The quality management dimension that best discriminates the two groups is standardication of work. Presence or absence of ISO certificate did not reveal much power to differentiate the two groups.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAkgüngör, S., Camgöz Akdağ, H. & Tuncay Çelikel, A. (2002). Innovative culture and total quality management as a tool for sustainable competitiveness: a case study of Turkish fruit and vegetable processing industry. Paper presented at the 1. Küçük ve Orta İşletmeler Konferansı, 1-22.en_US
dc.identifier.endpage22
dc.identifier.startpage1
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11729/7173
dc.institutionauthorTuncay Çelikel, Aslıen_US
dc.institutionauthorid0000-0003-2973-5118
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.peerreviewedYesen_US
dc.publicationstatusPublisheden_US
dc.relation.ispartof1. Küçük ve Orta İşletmeler Konferansıen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryKonferans Öğesi - Ulusal - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.titleInnovative culture and total quality management as a tool for sustainable competitiveness: a case study of Turkish fruit and vegetable processing industryen_US
dc.typeConference Objecten_US
dspace.entity.typePublicationen_US

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