| Article ID: | iaor19961888 |
| Country: | Brazil |
| Volume: | 1 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Start Page Number: | 189 |
| End Page Number: | 203 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 1994 |
| Journal: | Gesto & Produo |
| Authors: | Yokoyama Nelson |
| Keywords: | quality & reliability, philosophy |
During the last decade, the concepts of so-called Japanese practices relating to production organization, labour-management relations and inter-firm relations, have spread widely to the USA, to European countries and to Brazil. The purpose of this article is to seek a better understanding of the features of the diffusion process of the TQC metodology.