A Research Agenda for Lean Management

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

Contents:

Foreword xiii
Torbjørn 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 Ballé 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
Desirée 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