...Guilherme Tortorella; Daniel Nascimento; Rodrigo Caiado; Juan Gregorio Arrieta Posada; Rapinder Sawhney Purpose This study aims to examine the impact of practitioners’ generational differences on the development of a learning organization (LO) in companies undergoing a lean production (LP...

... in ownership, the company was instructed to rationalize production according to the principles of lean production. Data were collected through participant observation and semi-structured interviews. Findings The CoP of the case study reinterpreted, resisted and redefined the lean production practices...

... movement”, paper presented at 3rd International Conference on Systems Thinking in Management, Philadelphia, PA, May, available at: www.acasa.upenn.edu/RLAConfPaper.pdf . Alves , A.C. , Carvalho , J.D. and Sousa , R.M. (2011), “Lean production promotes thinkers, not ‘androids...

... as one of the many approaches within the lean and agile concepts (Green, 1999). Lean Agile Epistemology Complexity thinking Self‐organization Teams Lean production Agile production Complexity theory © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 According to Morin (1986 , p. 23...

... Research and development Agile production Lean production Operations and production management Research and development (R&D) programs, national and international, in manufacturing sector give their vision for the future of this sector and identify the research needed to face new challenges...

... competitive and more agile, collaborative and adaptive futures. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Knowledge stripping Socio‐techno Info‐techno Agile Lean Risk Trust Co‐adaptive Agile production Lean production Risk management In the 1970s, a confluence of political, security...

...Goran D. Putnik; Anabela C. Alves; José Dinis‐Carvalho; Rui M. Sousa Purpose This paper aims to explore the lean production paradigm as promoter of workers' creativity and thinking potential, and recognize this human potential as a fundamental asset for companies' growth and success, being a major...

... through the CST lenses, as well as the presentation of suggestions for development of new manufacturing systems paradigms. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Lean Agile Complexity Management Lean production Agile production Complexity theory “Lean” principle appears...

... perspective on processes of organisational change, by likening the process of change to that of scientific revolutions and demonstrating the non‐rational aspects of the change process. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Lean production Change management Organizational change Management...