 
                                                                                | Article ID: | iaor19961888 | 
| Country: | Brazil | 
| Volume: | 1 | 
| Issue: | 2 | 
| Start Page Number: | 189 | 
| End Page Number: | 203 | 
| Publication Date: | Aug 1994 | 
| Journal: | Gesto & Produo | 
| Authors: | Yokoyama Nelson | 
| Keywords: | quality & reliability, philosophy | 
During the last decade, the concepts of so-called Japanese practices relating to production organization, labour-management relations and inter-firm relations, have spread widely to the USA, to European countries and to Brazil. The purpose of this article is to seek a better understanding of the features of the diffusion process of the TQC metodology.