Lean manufacturing: context, practice bundles, and performance

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Lean manufacturing: context, practice bundles, and performance

Rachna Shah¹, Peter T. Ward²•Institutions (2)

University of Minnesota¹, Max M. Fisher College of Business²

01 Mar 2003-Journal of Operations Management (JOURNAL OF OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT)-Vol. 21, Iss: 2, pp 129-149

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of three contextual factors, plant size, plant age and unionization status, on the likelihood of implementing 22 manufacturing practices that are key facets of lean production systems are examined.

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About: This article is published in Journal of Operations Management.The article was published on 2003-03-01 and is currently open access. It has received 2576 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Lean project management & Lean accounting.

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A literature and practice review to develop sustainable business model archetypes

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Nancy Bocken¹, Samuel W. Short¹, Padmakshi Rana¹, Steve Evans¹•Institutions (1)

University of Cambridge¹

15 Feb 2014-Journal of Cleaner Production

TL;DR: In this article, sustainable business models (SBM) incorporate a triple bottom line approach and consider a wide range of stakeholder interests, including environment and society, to drive and implement corporate innovation for sustainability, can help embed sustainability into business purpose and processes, and serve as a key driver of competitive advantage.

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2,360 citations

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...Social, Environmental, Economical 1 See for instance Shah and Ward (2003)....
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...Lean manufacturing is a well-established philosophy that identifies and seeks to minimise waste in production processes (Shah and Ward, 2003; Melton, 2005)....
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Defining and developing measures of lean production

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Rachna Shah¹, Peter T. Ward²•Institutions (2)

University of Minnesota¹, Max M. Fisher College of Business²

01 Jun 2007-Journal of Operations Management

TL;DR: This research attempts to clarify the semantic confusion surrounding lean production by conducting an extensive literature review using a historical evolutionary perspective in tracing its main components, and identifies a key set of measurement items.

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2,069 citations

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...Lean production is generally described from two points of view, either from a philosophical perspective related to guiding principles and overarching goals (Womack and Jones, 1996; Spear and Bowen, 1999), or from the practical perspective of a set of management practices, tools, or techniques that can be observed directly (Shah and Ward, 2003; Li et al., 2005)....
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...Shah and Ward (2003) developed measures for lean manufacturing and operationalized it as bundles of practices related to total quality management, total preventive maintenance, and human resource management....
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...However we could not examine this relationship in other published research because none of them included the correlation matrix between TPM and other factors (McKone and Weiss, 1999; Cua et al., 2001; Shah and Ward, 2003)....
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...However, large firms implement lean practices significantly more often than do small firms (Shah and Ward, 2003); therefore bias in favor of large firms should not impact the results because selecting a sample to maximize the variance of measured variables relevant to the constructs of interest is highly recommended (Fabrigar et al....
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..., 1993) but it is now established as an independent construct (McKone and Weiss, 1999) and is used to predict manufacturing performance (Cua et al., 2001; Shah and Ward, 2003)....
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On the validity of subjective measures of company performance

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Toby D. Wall¹, Jonathan Michie², Malcolm Patterson¹, Stephen J. Wood¹, Maura Sheehan³, Chris W. Clegg¹, Michael West⁴ - Show less +3 more•Institutions (4)

University of Sheffield¹, Birkbeck, University of London², Saint Petersburg State University³, Aston University⁴

01 Mar 2004

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the use of subjective and objective measures of company performance in three separate samples and found that the relationship between the two measures was positively associated (convergent validity) and negatively associated (discriminant validity).

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Abstract: Subjective measures of company performance are widely used in research and typically are interpreted as equivalent to objective measures. Yet, the assumption of equivalence is open to challenge. We compared the use of both types of measure in 3 separate samples. Findings were consistent in showing that: (a) subjective and objective measures of company performance were positively associated (convergent validity); (b) those relationships were stronger than those between measures of differing aspects of performance using the same method (discriminant validity); and (c) the relationships of subjective and objective company performance measures with a range of independent variables were equivalent (construct validity).

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1,016 citations

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Contingency research in operations management practices

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Rui Sousa¹, Christopher A. Voss²•Institutions (2)

Catholic University of Portugal¹, London Business School²

01 Nov 2008-Journal of Operations Management

TL;DR: In order to increase the understanding of patterns of use of operations management practices, OM scholars need to study in more depth the process of selection of OM best practices by organizations, and put forward a framework to underpin such research integrating contingency theory and other theoretical perspectives.

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826 citations

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...While studies addressing quality management found no evidence of firm size effects (e.g., Ahire and Golhar, 1996), studies addressing lean manufacturing and general manufacturing best practices have found support for such effects (e.g., Cagliano et al., 2001; Shah and Ward, 2003)....
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...…stream a number of studies have found evidence of strong interactions between several OM practices (e.g., Cua et al., 2001; Flynn et al., 1999; Kaynak, 2003; Shah and Ward, 2003, 2007), suggesting that besides their individual effects, their mutual interactions significantly affect performance....
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...A final group of studies addresses several loosely related factors associated with the general context of organizations, for example, industry (Ahmad and Schroeder, 2003) and plant age (Shah and Ward, 2003)....
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..., Ahire and Golhar, 1996), studies addressing lean manufacturing and general manufacturing best practices have found support for such effects (e.g., Cagliano et al., 2001; Shah and Ward, 2003)....
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Impact of lean manufacturing and environmental management on business performance: An empirical study of manufacturing firms

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Ma Ga (Mark) Yang¹, Paul Hong¹, Sachin B. Modi¹•Institutions (1)

College of Business Administration¹

01 Feb 2011-International Journal of Production Economics

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored relationships between lean manufacturing practices, environmental management (e.g., environmental management practices and environmental performance) and business performance outcomes, including market and financial performance.

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786 citations

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..., new product development, order fulfillment, customer services) and achieves customer satisfaction by increasing customer responsiveness and reducing customer lead time (Shah and Ward, 2003; Ward and Zhou, 2006)....
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...Finally, larger firms are more likely to implement lean manufacturing practices (Shah and Ward, 2003) and implement environmental training programs (Aragon-Correa, 1996)....
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...The value of Cronbach α depends upon the number of items in the scale and the average inter-item correlation ( Carmines and Zeller, 1979, p. 45 )....
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01 Apr 1984-American Sociological Review

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider structural inertia in organizational populations as an outcome of an ecological-evolutionary process and define structural inertia as a correspondence between a class of organizations and their environments.

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...(Nelson and Winter, 1982; Hannan and Freeman, 1984)....
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...That is, large organizations suffer from structural inertial forces (Hannan and Freeman, 1984) that negatively effect the implementation of lean manufacturing practices....
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