A Research Agenda for Lean Management
Published on 26. March 2024
Book
Hardback
276 pages
978-1-0353-0290-1 (ISBN)
Description
Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.
This fascinating Research Agenda analyzes the key research topics within lean management. Exploring both contextual histories of these topics and potential avenues for future research, it provides a complete picture of lean management practices both past and present.
Exploring how lean management methods should be viewed and implemented, this Research Agenda examines how the concept has emerged through Toyota's real-world practices. Chapters are divided into 5 succinct sections: lean as a strategy; lean and learning,
lean and sustainability, lean leadership and behaviors, and lean and digitalization. Through these, new theoretical perspectives across several academic disciplines are investigated, ultimately providing useful insights on how to implement successful and sustainable lean programs.
A Research Agenda for Lean Management will be perfect for researchers and scholars seeking fresh methodologies and topics to rejuvenate their work within various disciplines, such as strategy and leadership. Discussion into implementing sustainable lean programs within this book will additionally benefit management practitioners.
This fascinating Research Agenda analyzes the key research topics within lean management. Exploring both contextual histories of these topics and potential avenues for future research, it provides a complete picture of lean management practices both past and present.
Exploring how lean management methods should be viewed and implemented, this Research Agenda examines how the concept has emerged through Toyota's real-world practices. Chapters are divided into 5 succinct sections: lean as a strategy; lean and learning,
lean and sustainability, lean leadership and behaviors, and lean and digitalization. Through these, new theoretical perspectives across several academic disciplines are investigated, ultimately providing useful insights on how to implement successful and sustainable lean programs.
A Research Agenda for Lean Management will be perfect for researchers and scholars seeking fresh methodologies and topics to rejuvenate their work within various disciplines, such as strategy and leadership. Discussion into implementing sustainable lean programs within this book will additionally benefit management practitioners.
Reviews / Votes
'The field of lean management is very much alive and growing. This book does a great job of bringing together leading experts in lean management who summarize state of the art and provide fertile ideas for future research. It will get your brain cells buzzing.' -- Jeff Liker, University of Michigan, USMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cheltenham
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-0353-0290-1 (9781035302901)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Edited by Andrea Furlan, Full Professor of Management, Department of Economics and Management, University of Padova and Scientific Director of the Lean Enterprise Center, CUOA Business School, Italy and Daryl Powell, Adjunct Professor, Department of Business, Strategy and Political Sciences, University of South-Eastern Norway, Kongsberg, Norway
Content
Contents:
Foreword xiii
Torbjorn Netland
Introduction: On the need for A Research Agenda for Lean
Management xv
Andrea Furlan and Daryl Powell
PART I LEAN MANAGEMENT: FROM BUNDLES OF
PRACTICES TO BUSINESS STRATEGY
1 Reflections on the lean manufacturing practice
bundles, twenty years on 3
Rachna Shah
2 Lean is a strategy 15
Florian Magnani, Michael Balle and Godefroy Beauvallet
PART II LEAN AND LEARNING
3 The lean education system 37
Eivind Reke
4 Building lean capabilities through action learning 53
Henrik Saabye
PART III LEAN AND SUSTAINABILITY: PEOPLE, PLANET, PROFIT
5 Lean and the planet 75
Rose Heathcote
6 The people value stream: an extension to lean 91
Peter Hines and Florian Magnani
7 Lean as a compensatory tool for neurodiverse
employees 115
Matteo Zanchi, Paolo Gaiardelli, Giuditta
Pezzotta and Daryl Powell
8 Does lean lead to resilient or fragile firms? An
empirical investigation and a research agenda 133
Andrea Furlan
PART IV LEAN LEADERSHIP AND BEHAVIORS
9 How to drive proactivity in lean settings 151
Michela Carraro and Ambra Galeazzo
10 Leading lean transformations: towards a 3D view
of lean leadership 167
Desiree H. van Dun
11 Searching for the magic formula of lean leadership 185
Marte D. Q. Holmemo
12 Anxiety that drives kaizen: a strategic blueprint
for kaizen implementation across borders 199
Kodo Yokozawa
PART V LEAN AND DIGITALIZATION
13 A digital lean world: from digital lean
manufacturing to Lean 4.0 217
Daryl Powell, David Romero, Jiju Antony and
Paolo Gaiardelli
14 Impact of Lean and Industry 4.0 on sustainability:
A Delphi study-based identification and assessment 229
Fabian Dillinger, Fabian Formann, Kai
Magenheimer, Gunther Reinhart and Guilherme Tortorella
Index 249
Foreword xiii
Torbjorn Netland
Introduction: On the need for A Research Agenda for Lean
Management xv
Andrea Furlan and Daryl Powell
PART I LEAN MANAGEMENT: FROM BUNDLES OF
PRACTICES TO BUSINESS STRATEGY
1 Reflections on the lean manufacturing practice
bundles, twenty years on 3
Rachna Shah
2 Lean is a strategy 15
Florian Magnani, Michael Balle and Godefroy Beauvallet
PART II LEAN AND LEARNING
3 The lean education system 37
Eivind Reke
4 Building lean capabilities through action learning 53
Henrik Saabye
PART III LEAN AND SUSTAINABILITY: PEOPLE, PLANET, PROFIT
5 Lean and the planet 75
Rose Heathcote
6 The people value stream: an extension to lean 91
Peter Hines and Florian Magnani
7 Lean as a compensatory tool for neurodiverse
employees 115
Matteo Zanchi, Paolo Gaiardelli, Giuditta
Pezzotta and Daryl Powell
8 Does lean lead to resilient or fragile firms? An
empirical investigation and a research agenda 133
Andrea Furlan
PART IV LEAN LEADERSHIP AND BEHAVIORS
9 How to drive proactivity in lean settings 151
Michela Carraro and Ambra Galeazzo
10 Leading lean transformations: towards a 3D view
of lean leadership 167
Desiree H. van Dun
11 Searching for the magic formula of lean leadership 185
Marte D. Q. Holmemo
12 Anxiety that drives kaizen: a strategic blueprint
for kaizen implementation across borders 199
Kodo Yokozawa
PART V LEAN AND DIGITALIZATION
13 A digital lean world: from digital lean
manufacturing to Lean 4.0 217
Daryl Powell, David Romero, Jiju Antony and
Paolo Gaiardelli
14 Impact of Lean and Industry 4.0 on sustainability:
A Delphi study-based identification and assessment 229
Fabian Dillinger, Fabian Formann, Kai
Magenheimer, Gunther Reinhart and Guilherme Tortorella
Index 249