Год выпуска: 2010 Автор: Fernando Gutierrez Hidalgo and Domi Romero Funez Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 88 ISBN: 9783838362427
Описание
It is generally agreed that management and accounting can only be understood in its organizational and social context (Miller, 1994). In this sense, several case studies have addressed management techniques in specific eighteenth-century organizations with regards to the improvement of the quality in the factory (Cox, 1990; and Gutierrez and Romero, 2001). Concretely, the present work shows the regulation and several examples about quality decisions taken ad hoc in the Royal Tobacco Factory of Seville in the second half of the 18th century. These decisions affected to the full production process. Therefore, some of them affected to the beginning of the process (i.e. Tobacco cultivation in America); while others dealt with the machinery of the factory; and finally others were taken having in mind their effects in the customers taste. Thus, this study provides a more precise perception about what quality meant in the operational decision process. This study should help shed some light...
