Pearce, Antony; Pons, Dirk - In: Operations Research Perspectives 6 (2019), pp. 1-14
For 25 years, the methodologies employed to study lean management have gone relatively unchallenged. This paper reviews … the development of the lean body of knowledge and reveals that the vast majority of research, being qualitative, relied … especially confirm the critical factors for lean success. Various theories requiring validation were identified and studies that …