... Environmental impact Lean inventory management has long been recognized as a crucial strategic approach for enterprises, particularly in the pursuit of operational efficiency and waste reduction (Zhu et al., 2018). According to lean philosophy, inventory is traditionally perceived as waste...

... Innovation PLS Environmental impact Therefore, environment is highly relevant. Derived from the previous statements, we propose the following research question: In order to answer this question, a latent variables model with data of 40 countries [1] in 2008, has been developed: Equation 1...