Special Issue "Quality Management and Sustainability"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Management".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Evangelos Grigoroudis
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School of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete, University Campus, 731 00 Chania, Greece
Interests: customer and employee satisfaction; service quality; multicriteria decision analysis; sustainability assessment
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Prof. Dr. Konstantinos P. Tsagarakis
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Business and Environmental Technology Economics Lab, Department of Environmental Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, 671 00 Xanthi, Greece
Interests: circular economy; technical–economic project evaluation; environmental and energy economics; environmental and energy behavior; environmental performance of firms; quantitative methods
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Dr. Ioannis Nikolaou
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Business and Environmental Technology Economics Lab, Department of Environmental Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, 671 00 Xanthi, Greece
Interests: corporate environmental management; corporate sustainability; corporate social responsibility; business circular economy models; environmental economics
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Quality management is an integrated and holistic approach that overlooks all activities of the organization in order to maintain a desired level of excellence for establishing and sustaining competitive advantage. Based on this, management activities cover the functions of quality planning, quality assurance, quality control, and quality improvement. In this context, quality management may be used as a bridge to environmental, social, and economic sustainability in organizations.

The main aim of this Special Issues is to examine the linkages between quality management and sustainability in business organizations. More specifically, we are interested in addressing the following main research questions:

  • How the main principles of quality management (customer focus, leadership, engagement, process approach, continuous improvement, evidence-based decision making, relationship management) may be incorporated in organizational sustainability?
  • How can quality management practices affect the sustainability performance of business organizations?
  • How can quality management and sustainability processes and tools be integrated within business organizations?

The Special Issue also examines the linkages and integration of different quality standards, such as quality management systems (ISO 9001), environmental management systems (BS 7750, ISO 14001, EcoManagement and Audit Scheme-EMAS, ISO 50001), social responsibility standards (ISO 26000), health and safety standards (OHSAS 180001, ISO 45001), etc. Furthermore, we are interested in examining the incorporation and the effects of the sustainability concept in the major quality awards, such as the EFQM Excellence Award, the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, and the Deming Prize.

Finally, this Special Issue seeks to collect contributions that examine the adoption of quality management tools such as Six Sigma, Lean Management, Quality Function Deployment (QFD), Kaizen, Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle, etc. in improving organizational sustainability.

We invite original contributions on theory, methods, and applications, as well as case studies coming from cross-discipline areas of quality management, as well as environmental, social, and economic sustainability that shed light on the abovementioned issues.

Prof. Dr. Evangelos Grigoroudis
Prof. Dr. Konstantinos P. Tsagarakis
Dr. Ioannis Nikolaou
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • quality management
  • total quality management
  • ISO 9001
  • ISO 14001
  • eco-management and audit scheme (EMAS)
  • ISO 26000
  • quality management tools
  • quality management principles
  • quality awards
  • health and safety standards

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Spatiotemporal Change and Coordinated Development Analysis of “Population-Society-Economy-Resource-Ecology-Environment” in the Jing-Jin-Ji Urban Agglomeration from 2000 to 2015
Sustainability 2021, 13(7), 4075; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13074075 - 06 Apr 2021
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Measuring the regionally coordinated development degree quantitively at an urban agglomeration scale is vital for regional sustainable development. To date, existing studies mainly utilized statistical data to analyze coordinated development degrees between different subsystems, which failed to measure the development gap of subsystems [...] Read more.
Measuring the regionally coordinated development degree quantitively at an urban agglomeration scale is vital for regional sustainable development. To date, existing studies mainly utilized statistical data to analyze coordinated development degrees between different subsystems, which failed to measure the development gap of subsystems between cities. This study integrated remote sensing and statistical data to evaluate the development degree from six subsystems. The coordinated index (CI) and coordinated development index (CDI) were then promoted to assess the coordinated degree and coordinated development degree. The main findings were: (1) The coordinated development degree of Jing-Jin-Ji (JJJ) had increased from 0.4616 in 2000 to 0.6099 in 2015, with the corresponding grade improvement from “moderate” to “good”; (2) JJJ and six subsystems’ development degree showed an increasing trend. JJJ’s whole development degree had improved from 0.34 to 0.52, and the grade had changed from “fair” to “moderate”; (3) The coordinated degree of JJJ displayed a “V” shape. However, the coordinated degree was lower in 2015 than in 2000. Full article
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