Purpose Microfoundations have become an effective approach for capability scholars to
explore the heterogeneity of organizational results. Since the early pioneering work of …

Purpose Lean remains popular in a wide range of private and public sectors and continues
to attract a significant amount of research. However, most of this research is not grounded in …

Purpose With the growing need for employees to be innovative, public-sector organizations
are investing in employee training. This study aims to examine the effects of a combined …

The current global economic landscape is forcing all organizational sectors to remain
relevant by innovating services, products and work processes. Therefore, more than before …

Purpose The purpose of this study is to empirically test how problem-solving lean practices,
along with leaders as learning facilitators in an action learning approach, can be transferred …

Purpose Frontline teams are at the centre of lean transformations, but the teams also
transform as they implement lean. This study examines these changes and seeks to …

Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate how soft lean practices moderate the
performance effects of hard lean practices. The authors provide new evidence from the …

Purpose As a problem-solving tool, the kaizen event (KE) is underutilised in practice.
Assuming this is due to a lack of group process quality during those events, the authors …

Purpose Do managers at different hierarchical levels in a firm perceive the effectiveness of a
lean program differently, and does it matter for their commitment to it and the resulting lean …

This research is based on the thesis that organizational processes (via lean practices),
technology (via digitalization), and people (via learning) constitute a managerial framework …