Purpose Lean remains popular in a wide range of private and public sectors and continues
to attract a significant amount of research. However, most of this research is not grounded in …

The phenomenon of the Toyota Production System (TPS) and the term “Lean” have received
much attention from researchers and especially practitioners over the past 40 years. As …

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to theorize and test the relationships among lean
operations and lean supply chain practices, learning-and innovation-oriented lean cultures …

This paper explores the relationships between lean manufacturing (LM), the promotion of
green practices, employee involvement, pressure to take actions against environmental …

Purpose Although lean popularity is rapidly growing, its implementation is far from problem-
free and companies may experience difficulties in sustaining long-term success. On this …

Purpose Lean production has been proved to be a cost-effective and efficient means of
production that reduces non-valve added activities. Industry 4.0 (I4. 0) is a technology-driven …

Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate how soft lean practices moderate the
performance effects of hard lean practices. The authors provide new evidence from the …

Skeletal spatial structure (SkS) systems are modular systems which have shown promise to
support mass customization, and sustainability in construction. SkS have been used …

Lean has been the dominant production paradigm for the past few decades. With its focus
on reducing complexity, lean suggests to limit the use of digital technologies on the shop …