Anand Prakash, Sanjay Kumar Jha, Kapil Deo Prasad and Abhishek Kumar Singh
The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate linkage among productivity, quality, and business performance in home-based brassware units in India.
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate linkage among productivity, quality, and business performance in home-based brassware units in India.
Design/methodology/approach
This study involved action research of home-based brassware units applying procedures for three-stage least-squares (3SLS) regression analysis, with data obtained through questionnaire survey based on convenience sampling.
Findings
This study has supported the established belief that quality leads to productivity, and subsequently productivity leads to better business performance for home-based brassware units in India. The consistent and logical result of this study using 3SLS regression analysis has provided empirical understanding of the appropriate linkage among productivity, quality, and business performance.
Research limitations/implications
This study has limitations of findings, as it studied the home-based brassware units in the Indian context only.
Practical implications
This study implies that marketable home-based brassware products are to be produced by taking into account boundaries of production within the framework of goals and value created by motivation and dependability for monitoring the business performance. Identifying an appropriate linkage among productivity, quality, and business performance may project a holistic evaluation of the policy development related to home-based brassware units.
Originality/value
This is an original study to test empirical linkages among productivity, quality, and business performance using 3SLS regression analysis particularly for home-based brassware units in India.
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Kapil Deo Prasad, Sanjay Kumar Jha and Anand Prakash
This paper examines the ways in which the concepts of “quality”, “productivity” and “business performance” are dealt in the literature to exhibit that terms used within these…
Abstract
Purpose
This paper examines the ways in which the concepts of “quality”, “productivity” and “business performance” are dealt in the literature to exhibit that terms used within these fields are vaguely defined and poorly understood. The purpose of this paper is to define quality, productivity and business performance along with their linkages for home-based brassware manufacturing units.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper reviews related academic literature mostly since past ten years.
Findings
This paper clarifies meaning and linkages of quality, productivity and business performance in home-based brassware manufacturing units.
Research limitations/implications
The meaning and interpretations of quality, productivity and business performance may differ for other manufacturing units.
Practical implications
This paper highlights determinants of quality, productivity and business performance using key performance areas as applied explicitly for home-based brassware manufacturing units. The systems approach has been applied to understand productivity.
Originality/value
This paper creates terminologies that reduce the existing confusion with the field for applications in academia and brassware industry.