Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to study management control mechanisms (social, behavioral, and output control mechanisms) and their complementary effects on firm performance in lean manufacturing firms. Design/methodology/approach: The study uses second-order structural equation modeling...

Purpose: This paper aims to study the relations between lean operations, lean principles in finance functions and the roles of finance functions. Design/methodology/approach: The paper uses structural equation modeling to analyze data from 408 different firms in the Danish production and...