WHY FIRMS SEEK ISO 9000 CERTIFICATION: REGULATORY COMPLIANCE OR COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE?

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1970 • 21,732 citations

Job Market Signaling

1973 • 12,677 citations

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The Problem of Social Cost

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Theory of Industrial Organization.

1989 • 5,485 citations

Applied Linear Statistical Models.

1986 • 4,926 citations

The Role of Market Forces in Assuring Contractual Performance

1981 • 3,758 citations

Free Competition and the Optimal Amount of Fraud

1973 • 3,737 citations

Reputation and imperfect information

1982 • 3,115 citations

Standardization, Compatibility, and Innovation

1985 • 2,618 citations

Premiums for High Quality Products as Returns to Reputations

1983 • 2,341 citations

Price and Advertising Signals of Product Quality

1986 • 2,289 citations

An Instrument for Measuring the Critical Factors of Quality Management

1989 • 2,079 citations

Relaxing Price Competition Through Product Differentiation

1982 • 2,008 citations

Predicting takeover targets

1986 • 1,399 citations

Lasting improvements in manufacturing performance: In search of a new theory

1990 • 1,227 citations

Consumer Information, Product Quality, and Seller Reputation

1982 • 874 citations

Quacks, Lemons, and Licensing: A Theory of Minimum Quality Standards

1979 • 806 citations

Elements of Econometrics

1988 • 668 citations

Consumer Misperceptions, Product Failure and Producer Liability

1977 • 616 citations

Prices as Signals of Product Quality

1983 • 496 citations

Reputation and Product Quality

1984 • 475 citations

A Model of Advertising and Product Quality

1978 • 451 citations

The Effects of Organizational Context on Quality Management: An Empirical Investigation

1991 • 396 citations

Investment, Moral Hazard, and Occupational Licensing

1986 • 331 citations

Product Quality in Markets Where Consumers are Imperfectly Informed

1979 • 250 citations

TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT: A LITERATURE REVIEW AND AN AGENDA FOR FUTURE RESEARCH

1995 • 243 citations

The Effects of Technological Change, Experience, and Environmental Regulation on the Construction Cost of Coal-Burning Generating Units

1985 • 189 citations

Rate Filing Policies for Inland Water Transportation: An Experimental Approach

1982 • 151 citations

Prices, Product Qualities and Asymmetric Information: The Competitive Case

1984 • 149 citations

Prices and Qualities in Markets with Costly Information

1982 • 127 citations

On the Economics of Repeat Buying

1984 • 74 citations

SMALL BUSINESS REPORTS

1995 • 72 citations

A throughput-maximizing facility planning and layout model

1989 • 34 citations

Quality assurance information systems for factory automation

1985 • 21 citations

An integrative theory of strategic quality management: a cost-benefit framework for evaluating quality improvement programmes

1989 • 20 citations

Quality Control Information Systems in Manufacturing: Considerations and Concerns for Management

1991 • 20 citations

Making sense of ISO 9000

1993 • 8 citations