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Business excellence models: limitations, reflections and further development

Dahlgaard, Jens J. ; Chen, Chi-Kuang ; Jang, Jiun-Yi ; Banegas, Leonardo A. and Dahlgaard-Park, Su Mi LU (2013) In Total Quality Management & Business Excellence 24(5-6). p.519-538
Abstract
The use of business excellence models (BEM) has become popular in the last two decades, and several companies have learned how to use them and gained from such models. More companies, we assume, have experienced problems when using such models because of various weaknesses such as too-sophisticated assessment criteria, excessive paperwork, cumbersome procedures and a lack of focus, which have limited its use in practice. To respond to some of those problems, a new overall business excellence framework (BEF) has been developed which recommends adaption instead of adoption of existing BEM. The suggested overall BEF helps to integrate BEM with management tools/techniques and the organisational culture/characteristics for guiding an... (More)
The use of business excellence models (BEM) has become popular in the last two decades, and several companies have learned how to use them and gained from such models. More companies, we assume, have experienced problems when using such models because of various weaknesses such as too-sophisticated assessment criteria, excessive paperwork, cumbersome procedures and a lack of focus, which have limited its use in practice. To respond to some of those problems, a new overall business excellence framework (BEF) has been developed which recommends adaption instead of adoption of existing BEM. The suggested overall BEF helps to integrate BEM with management tools/techniques and the organisational culture/characteristics for guiding an organisation towards business excellence. A document-based empirical case of a world-class company, Boeing Aerospace Support, was investigated to illustrate how the overall BEF may work in practice as a complement to an existing BEM when companies adapt such models to their specific contexts. (Less)
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business excellence models, total quality management, 4P excellence, model, MBNQA, EFQM excellence model, self-assessment, change management
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Total Quality Management & Business Excellence
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24
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5-6
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519 - 538
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Routledge
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1478-3363
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10.1080/14783363.2012.756745
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English
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  author       = {{Dahlgaard, Jens J. and Chen, Chi-Kuang and Jang, Jiun-Yi and Banegas, Leonardo A. and Dahlgaard-Park, Su Mi}},
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  series       = {{Total Quality Management & Business Excellence}},
  title        = {{Business excellence models: limitations, reflections and further development}},
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  doi          = {{10.1080/14783363.2012.756745}},
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