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Meaningful inhibitors of the Lean journey: A Systematic Review and categorisation of over 20 years of literature

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posted on 2020-09-28, 12:54 authored by Higor Leite, Nicola Bateman, Zoe Radnor
Lean philosophy has been one of the most prominent methodologies of process improvement. Positive results from lean implementations have motivated managers to carry out lean transformations. However, the low success rates, linked to barriers to implement lean are still a challenge, and one of the reasons is the lack of understanding of these inhibitors and enablers. Scholars have investigated barriers that affect the lean journey, some of these barriers overlap and require a meaningful categorisation. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to fill in this gap by providing a review of more than 20 years of literature, and synthesising these barriers into meaningful organisational categories. To achieve this aim, we employed a systematic literature review. Our findings present six meaningful lean barriers, which we categorised into a framework. These barriers have mainly behavioural and organisational aspects (people-dependent), and technical aspects (tool-based). Finally, we derived eight propositions, contributing to knowledge and practice.

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Production Planning & Control, in press

Author affiliation

School of Business

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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Production Planning & Control

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

issn

0953-7287

eissn

1366-5871

Acceptance date

2020-08-18

Copyright date

2020

Available date

2021-10-19

Language

en

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