Concept of Quality. Reflections for its Definition
Keywords:
concept of quality, objective quality, subjective quality, comprehensive approach to quality, quality managementAbstract
Lack of consensus on the definition of quality is the main cause of conflicting and inconsistent results from empirical studies, which prevented the building of a solid starting point for its analysis, and therefore to their management process as pursued outcome in any organization. This paper presents a conceptual and critical analysis of the quality category which enabled, from the recognition of a set of properties related to its meaning, to reveal its essence inside the production's social relations context, that is, as an economic category.