...Tomomi Hamada; Chikako Hironaka Purpose This study aims to examine how practices rooted in the Toyota Production System ( TPS ) foster employees’ openness to change through cultural mechanisms. Drawing on the competing values framework ( CVF ), the authors propose that TPS principles – typically...

...). It explores whether a process-driven system like the Toyota Production System ( TPS ) can support a people-centered transformation, even without explicitly adopting the Shingo framework. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative case study was conducted through 10 semi-structured interviews with employees...

... sigma Toyota Production System Innovation Systems Culture Humble leadership Empowerment Respect every individual Multiple factors fuel corporate innovation for competitive advantage (Hou, 2024). Companies strive to drive growth, increase profitability, enhance investor returns and elevate...

... experimentation and step-by-step organizational learning. Organisational learning Toyota Production System TPS How is a company-specific production system (XPS) created? A retrospective case study was conducted in a Norwegian multinational, covering the XPS development from the initial...

... of the Toyota Production System (TPS) (Coetzee et al., 2019a). Another example is Mike Rother, who studied Toyota for six years (Rother and Arbor, 2014). We also studied the Toyota website, and although the second author has some Japanese language skills, we received help with the translation from...

...Song-Kyoo Kim Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to demonstrate how Toyota deploys Lean Manufacturing and Toyota Production System (TPS) for their automotive parts’ suppliers in Philippines based on the case study and the literature review. Design/methodology/approach – The methods...

..., www.hoovers.com /). Toyota also edged out GM for the largest percentage of market share in the US automotive industry (Danova, 2013). A large amount of the literature on lean focuses on the Toyota Production System (TPS) and Toyota philosophies and tools (Spear and Bowen, 1999 ; Liker, 2004 ; Spear, 2004...

... Kata (Rother, 2009) helped bring the Toyota Production System and lean manufacturing into the mainstream. There are different opinions as to how to best define lean. For example, some prefer to focus on a limited set of specific production techniques, whereas others think of lean more broadly...

..., lean and review, lean and Toyota Production System, lean assessment, lean culture, lean transformation. The databases accessed through EBSCO were: Academic Source Premier, Business Source Premier, ERIC, and PsycINFO. Originality/value Publications tracing the lineage of lean over the past four...