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2 - Lean Production from the View of Management Theory

Functional, Critical, and Paradox Approaches

from Part I - Theories of Lean Production

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2021

By
Katsuki Aoki
Edited by
Thomas Janoski  and
Darina Lepadatu
Thomas Janoski
Affiliation:
University of Kentucky
Darina Lepadatu
Affiliation:
Kennesaw State University, Georgia
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Summary

Since the publication of a seminal book, The Machine that Changed the World (Womack, Jones, and Roos 1990), lean production has received much attention from numerous researchers and practitioners. Operations Management (OM) studies have greatly increased knowledge on how organizations can successfully implement lean systems, including the Just-in-Time (JIT)/Kanban system (e.g., Monden 2011; Mackelprang and Nair 2010), process improvement programs (e.g., Glover, Farris, Van Aken, and Doolen 2011; Brunet and New 2003), and supply chain management (e.g., Wilhelm, 2011; Bruce, Daly, and Towers 2004). While lean production has been one of the central themes among OM studies (Holweg 2007), this topic has hardly been examined in the Management Theory (MT) literature. This chapter aims to fill this gap by bridging between lean production and MT, and hopes to encourage a larger number of researchers in this field to join the discussion of lean production.

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The Cambridge International Handbook of Lean Production
Diverging Theories and New Industries around the World
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Print publication year: 2021

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