... within this research domain. Kimberly D. Harry can be contacted at: kharry@binghamton.edu 11 11 2024 10 02 2025 29 03 2025 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Kaizen events Hospitals Continuous improvement...

... with the transition journey for the 1,931 articles scanned. Figure 2 Journals with less than 20 matches found Figure 3 Concepts when jointly searched with “Lean” Culture Philosophy Lean Continuous improvement Transformation Adopting Lean thinking as a complete business strategy...

.... Continuous improvement Leadership practices Action research Lean production system Lean leadership Continuous improvement has become a premise for the maintenance of competitiveness and it is connected to different models, the lean production system (LPS) is one of them. The LPS implementation...

... conscientious people, inducing them to work in a defective way. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Quality Performance Personality Work Continuous improvement Distraction There is considerable agreement that conscientiousness includes a basic dispositional sense of accuracy...

... management principles for continuous improvement. With identification of concerned factors from the literature, it examines their usefulness in the quality management system. Findings An empirical analysis on the framework identifies eight factors: factual approach to decision making, use of quality...

...‐specific and are developed over time through complex interactions among the firm's resources. For these authors, the notion of capability involves thus: © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Continuous improvement Core‐capabilities Accreditation Business schools One the one...

...Nadia Bhuiyan; Amit Baghel Purpose To provide an overview of the history, evolution, and existing research on continuous improvement. Design/methodology/approach Extensive review of the literature. Findings This paper provides an overview of continuous improvement, its inception, how...

... for continuous innovation. For both stages its consequences for the initiation and implementation of new services are discussed. The paper ends with limitations and suggestions for future research. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Innovation Organizational culture Service operations Continuous improvement...

... and high performance. There always have been tradeoffs among the three quality targets, but the balance among them has improved through history. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Human resource management Total quality management Kaizen Economics Competitive strategy Continuous improvement Only...

...‐stage sequential process with simple measures to evaluate the infrastructure elements. The approach is applied to study six Australian companies on their way to becoming continuous improvement systems. The findings expose different levels and patterns of team infrastructure. The enterprises differ...