'Quality Fade': China's great business challenge
Paul Midler writes on quality at Knowledge@Wharton:
Numerous news stories this past month have focused on concerns about the quality and safety of certain Chinese exports. In this opinion piece, Paul Midler, founder and president of China Advantage, a services firm that provides outsourcing and supply chain management to U.S. and European companies, discusses what he calls "quality fade" in China, which he defines as "the deliberate and secretive habit of widening profit margins through a reduction in the quality of materials."
See a response from China Law Blog.