Impact of Total Quality Management on Innovation in Service Organizations: Literature Review and New Conceptual Framework

Purpose of this paper is to review the literature on the relationship between total quality management TQM and innovation in services organization, and to develop a research conceptual framework on this relationship. The most recent studies investigated the TQM-innovation relationship and involved service industries in its scope have been reviewed. A discussion on the TQM practices in service organization is presented and conceptual framework and model are proposed.