Home›Open Questions›What year, and by whom, is total quality management's coinage and rise to prominence best dated?Open QuestionsWhat year, and by whom, is total quality management's coinage and rise to prominence best dated?Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextBusiness Atlas. "What year, and by whom, is total quality management's coinage and rise to prominence best dated?." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-business.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/tqm-origin-year-and-originator.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextBusiness Atlas. (n.d.). What year, and by whom, is total quality management's coinage and rise to prominence best dated?. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-business.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/tqm-origin-year-and-originatorCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{businessatlas-what-year-and-by-whom-is-total-quality-m, author = {Business Atlas}, title = {What year, and by whom, is total quality management's coinage and rise to prominence best dated?}, year = {2026}, url = {https://dev-business.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/tqm-origin-year-and-originator}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXOpen QuestionCross-Tradition ConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)Open QuestionGeneral and encyclopedic sources place the term's coinage and popularization across the mid to late 1980s, crediting a broad mix of contributors (Deming's and Juran's earlier quality-control work, the U.S. Navy's early use of the phrase, and its uptake by American manufacturers responding to Japanese quality methods) with no single agreed founding year or individual, unlike scientific management (Taylor, 1911) or management by objectives (Drucker, 1954).What would resolve this A management-history source that traces the term's first documented use and its spread through American industry with named dates, rather than a general encyclopedia entry.OpenManagement HistoryWikipedia, Total Quality ManagementCross-Tradition ConnectionsQuestion OnTotal Quality Management, Management Theories Well-attested Source Wikipedia, Total Quality Managementtier 2SourcesWikipedia, Total Quality Managementtier 2Wikipedialead sectionView the SourceWikipedia, Total Quality Managementtier 2WikipediaQuestion On: Total Quality Management, History sectionQuote, Question On: Total Quality Management, History sectionThe exact origin of the term 'total quality management' is uncertain.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year