Total quality management and the law: a survey of legal issues relating to implementation of TQM

Article Abstract:

Total quality management (TQM) exposes manufacturers to greater numbers of insider trading and antitrust violations and products liability actions. TQM is a product quality improvement technique which involves closer monitoring of relationships between manufacturers and suppliers to produce better products and improve consumer satisfaction. Because TQM emphasizes more cooperative efforts between manufacturers and suppliers, connections can encourage misuse of shared information in stock trading and collaboration can lead to undue restrictions on trade. Consumer injuries can establish a chain of liability from suppliers to product manufacturers and marketers.

Management, Manufacturing industry, Manufacturing industries, Product quality, Laws, regulations and rules, Business-to-business market, Business to business market

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Battles in New Zealand's deregulated telecommunications industry

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New Zealand's experience with deregulation in its telecommunications industry demonstrates that the courts and existing competition laws are not sufficient resources to regulate a privatized monopoly. In 1990, the government sold the state-owned telephone system as part of a rapid deregulation of telecommunications. Instead of creating a regulatory body, as most nations have, New Zealand chose to rely on the courts to resolve disputes and to provide antitrust protection. This solution has been costly and has resolved little between the parties.

Cases, Telecommunications services industry, Telecommunications industry, New Zealand, Privatization, Privatization (Business)

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Market power issues in deregulated industries

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Market power concerns are applied to deregulated industries when the deregulation has been incomplete and when there are advocates for reinstating price ceilings. Deregulating an industry means there will have to be a greater reliance on antitrust enforcement. There have been well-known examples of applying the antitrust enforcement principles of collusion, combination and exclusionary practices to deregulated industries. One such example is the merger concerns in the restructuring of the airline industry.

Industrial policy, Market share

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