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International Journal of

Quality and
Innovation
Scope of the Journal
Both 'quality' and 'innovation' play vital roles for businesses to remain competitive
in the marketplace. Broadly speaking, quality aims for high and sustainable
performance in existing business areas, while innovation aims for a breakthrough in
business areas. Both concepts are in some ways mutually dependent – an
organisation has to be innovative in solving problems to achieve quality and has to
have the quality backing to deliver a sustainable innovation. Both concepts are also
in some ways mutually paradoxical – quality appears to require conformance to a
standard whereas innovation suggests a deviation. Yet, it is in the twin pursuit of
quality and innovation that a business continues to keep ahead of its competitors.

Subject coverage:
Subjects covered include, but are not limited
to:
• The strategies and integration of quality and
innovation
• The dilemmas and tensions of quality and
innovation
• Leadership and management issues in
achieving quality and innovation
• Socio-cultural issues in quality and
innovation
• Training and education issues in quality and
innovation International Journal of

• Change management in achieving quality

and innovation Quality and
• Risk and cost of quality and innovation Innovation
• Technologies, techniques and tools for
quality and innovation
• Performance indicators for quality and
innovation
• Quality assurance systems and innovation
frameworks
• Innovative solutions for quality challenges
• Quality platform for innovation and
breakthrough
• The relationship between quality and
innovation and other disciplines such as
knowledge management, total quality
management and organisational learning
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• National policies for quality and innovation
• Quality and innovation through industry-
university collaboration

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Members of the Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Niaz Ahmad
National Textile University, Pakistan
Associate Editor and Editorial Advisor
Dr. Pak Tee Ng
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Editorial Co-ordinator
Ms. Tayyiba Rashid
University of the Punjab, Pakistan
Editorial Board
Dr. Muhammad T. Afzal
University of New Brunswick, Canada
Prof. Dr. Farid Nasir Ani
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
Prof. Dr. Muhammad Arif Butt
University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
Prof. Sujit Banerji
University of Warwick, UK
Dr. Siamak Boudaghpour
K.N. Toosi Technical University, Iran
Prof. Dr. Sajjad Ahmed Chaudhry
Business & Quality Services of America, USA
Dr. Fred M. Hayward
World Bank on Quality, USA
Dr. Chung Hwa Hsu
National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences
Taiwan, ROC
Prof. Dr. Iftekhar Karimi
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Prof. Dr. Basheer Khumawala
University of Texas at Houston, USA
Prof. Thow Yick Liang
Singapore Management University, Singapore
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Dr. M.A.K. Lodhi
Texas Tech University, USA
Dr. Sarfraz A. Mian
State University of New York at Oswego, USA
Prof. Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan Rajput
Mehran University of Engineering & Technology,
Pakistan
Prof. Dr. Abdul Raouf
University of Management and Technology,
Pakistan
Dr. Kala S. Retna
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Prof. Dr. Dominique Richon
École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris-
ParisTech, France
Dr. Leigh Sparks
University of Stirling, UK
Dr. G. Srikanthan
RMIT University, Australia
Prof. Sivalinga Prasad Vasireddy
National Assessment & Accreditation Council
(NAAC), India
Prof. Arif A. Waqif
University of Hyderabad Campus, India
Prof. Dr. Muhammad Zafarullah
Bahauddin Zakariya University, Pakistan
Dr. Zuraidah Mohd Zain
University Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), Malaysia
Mr. Anders Örtenblad
Halmstad University, Sweden
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Relating quality and innovation: an
exploration Name of subscriber
Pak Tee Ng
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Quality function development: a new ...........................................................................
paradigm for involving customers in product
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J.R. Sharma, A.M. Rawani
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Investment in quality management practices Address ..............................................................
and their impact on operational performance
in cotton spinning industry ...........................................................................
T. Hussain, N. Ahmad, N.S. Butt
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Quality control by information technology in
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RMG industry in Bangladesh
A.K.M. Masud, Abdullah Al-Khaled, Farhana ...........................................................................
Abedin, A.F.M. Nasir Uddin, M. Sayeed Alam
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Designing an economic sampling plan: a
QFD approach
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G. Manikandan, SM. Kannan, V. Jayabalan ...........................................................................

Development of an improved CNC Fax ......................................................................

interpolator and performance evaluation in
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