Lean production: experience among Russian organizations

The Russian Experience

Using a unique dataset obtained from large-scale panel enterprise surveys conducted in 2005 and 2009, we clarify the survival status of Russian industrial firms before and after the global financial crisis and empirically examine the determinants of firm survival. The estimation of the Cox proportional hazard model provided evidence that the independence of company’s governance bodies, their hu...

Agile and Lean: Organizations, Products and Development

Agile development methods and their associated practices have become well-accepted within industry, and the success of projects using these methods is higher than traditional methods [1]. However, the optimal environmental parameters that suggest a fit between a project’s requirements and needed outcomes, and the use of agile methods is still a matter requiring further research. This is due to ...

Annotated Bibliography on Lean in Healthcare Organizations

Lean production tools and decision latitude enable conditions for innovative learning in organizations: a multilevel analysis.

The effect of lean production on conditions for learning is debated. This study aimed to investigate how tools inspired by lean production (standardization, resource reduction, visual monitoring, housekeeping, value flow analysis) were associated with an innovative learning climate and with collective dispersion of ideas in organizations, and whether decision latitude contributed to these assoc...

Lean production in construction

In manufacturing, great gains in performance have been realized by a new production philosophy, which leads to "lean production". This new production philosophy is a generalization of such partial approaches as JIT, TQM, time-based competition, and concurrent engineering. In construction, lean production is little known. The concepts, principles and methods of lean production are reviewed, and ...