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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2022
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
ESMT Working Paper No. 22-04
Verlag: 
European School of Management and Technology (ESMT), Berlin
Zusammenfassung: 
The literature on quality-management standards has generally focused on the drivers, motivations, and performance effects of adopting such standards. Yet the last decade has witnessed a substantial degree of decertification behavior, as organizations have increasingly decided to voluntarily withdraw from qualitymanagement standards by not recertifying. While the drivers of the decision to initially adopt qualitymanagement standards have been extensively studied, the drivers of the decision to decertify have received scant scholarly attention. We argue that innovative organizations are generally prone to retaining qualitymanagement certification and thus exhibit a tendency to not abandon certification; however, radicallyinnovative organizations are more prone than incrementally-innovative organizations to discontinue quality-management standards and thereby exhibit a tendency to withdraw from quality certification. We compile World Bank data surveying facilities based in 50 countries and 103 industrial sectors across the 2003 to 2017 period. Taking advantage of the data's panel properties yields a dataset composed of up to 1,755 facility-level observations of recertification decisions for empirical analysis. Our empirical testing employs a probit estimation technique that accounts for the appropriate fixed effects and generates results that support our theoretical priors regarding decertification behavior.
Schlagwörter: 
decertification
innovation
quality management
standards
JEL: 
L15
O32
L25
Dokumentart: 
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