William V Rago
Biographic Data
| ID | 4400563 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William V Rago |
| GIVEN NAMES | William V |
| FAMILY NAME | Rago |
| SIGNATURE | RAGO W V |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Struggles in Transformation
Listen to the experts in total quality management (TQM), and you will repeatedly hear that the key to successful implementation of TQM is to at the of the organization, and then, with constancy of purpose, proceed downward (Deming, 1986; Imai, 1986; Townsend, 1990). What does begin at the top mean in practice? What is its significance in relation to the everyday behavior of the organization? This article describes the efforts undertaken and lesso…
Adapting Total Quality Management (TQM) to Government
In a thought-provoking article, Swiss (1992, p. 358) argued that TQM is strikingly ill suited to the government environment, requiring modification if it is to be useful in this environment. In advancing his argument, Swiss identifies four major problems with Deming's (1986) industrial-sector-developed TQM (what he refers to as orthodox TQM) that is the basis of this incompatibility. In this article, I agree with Swiss's premise that an adaptatio…
Ecology and Ordinality in Invention
A review of literature on environmental complexity, biographic works on inventors, and even the etymology of ecology (Greek oikos or house) generated the hypothesis that inventors, more than noninventors, would have spent a significant part of their lives in a 2-story home. Further, inventors would be overrepresented by firstborns. 544, i.e., 30% of the University of Texas faculty, responded to a brief questionnaire. Although analyses failed to u…
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Ecology and Ordinality in Invention
A review of literature on environmental complexity, biographic works on inventors, and even the etymology of ecology (Greek oikos or house) generated the hypothesis that inventors, more than noninventors, would have spent a significant part of their lives in a 2-story home. Further, inventors would be overrepresented by firstborns. 544, i.e., 30% of the University of Texas faculty, responded to a brief questionnaire. Although analyses failed to u…
Adapting Total Quality Management (TQM) to Government
In a thought-provoking article, Swiss (1992, p. 358) argued that TQM is strikingly ill suited to the government environment, requiring modification if it is to be useful in this environment. In advancing his argument, Swiss identifies four major problems with Deming's (1986) industrial-sector-developed TQM (what he refers to as orthodox TQM) that is the basis of this incompatibility. In this article, I agree with Swiss's premise that an adaptatio…
Struggles in Transformation
Listen to the experts in total quality management (TQM), and you will repeatedly hear that the key to successful implementation of TQM is to at the of the organization, and then, with constancy of purpose, proceed downward (Deming, 1986; Imai, 1986; Townsend, 1990). What does begin at the top mean in practice? What is its significance in relation to the everyday behavior of the organization? This article describes the efforts undertaken and lesso…
Business (2 works) · Government (linguistics (2 works) · Marketing (2 works) · Marketing (2 works) · Quality and Supply Management (2 works) · Social science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Total quality management (2 works) · Agency (philosophy (1 work) · Art (1 work)