Roemeling, Oskar; Land, Martin; Ahaus, Kees - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 37 (2017) 9, pp. 1229-1245
/methodology/approach Longitudinal field research is combined with an exploratory field-quasi-experiment. First, a large set of Lean interventions were … focus. Second, this study investigated whether a knowledge deficiency could explain the identified focus through a quasi-experiment … waste. A quasi-experiment demonstrated that a small investment in knowledge enables the focus to shift toward buffers and …