Lean thinking and the factors necessary for its success

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Lean thinking and the factors necessary for its success

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Lean management is becoming the standard for systematic productivity improvement, but the majority of implementations fail to sustain. Hence, the critical success factors for lean were the focus of this work. Literature review showed that the causality for lean success was not empirically developed beyond case study contextualisation. A multifaceted work was developed with contextualisation studies, survey of lean knowledge (758 responses), and a comprehensive case-study questionnaire (1253 r...

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Research paper

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Thesis

Thesis level

Doctoral

Date created

2014

Creator

Pearce, Antony

URL

http://hdl.handle.net/10092/9662

Related subjects

Lean / implementation / sustain / success / factors / management / knowledge / consultant / structural equation / modelling / small / business / manufacturing / production / risk / partial least squares / SME / SEM / PLS

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