International Journal of Lean Six Sigma: Volume 12 Issue 6

Sustainability excellence: the interactions of lean production, internal green practices and green product innovation

Ebenezer Afum, Ran Zhang, Yaw Agyabeng-Mensah, Zhuo Sun

This study aims to investigate the interactions between lean production, internal green practices, green product innovation and sustainable performance metrics. The study further…

Investigation and modeling of lean six sigma barriers in small and medium-sized industries using hybrid ISM-SEM approach

Mahipal Singh, Rajeev Rathi

Lean six sigma (LSS) has attained a prominent position in mature organizations but small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are struggling in the proper implementation of LSS in…

Future research methodologies of lean manufacturing: a systematic literature review

Evangelos Psomas

A rich agenda for future research in the field of Lean Manufacturing (LM) is available in the academic literature. The purpose of this paper is to determine the LM future research…

An Analysis of hospital characteristics on lean and service quality

Assadej Vanichchinchai

The purpose of this research is to explore the differences across hospital characteristics (i.e. lean maturity, hospital size, hospital type and ISO 9001) on lean expectation…

The Lean principle respect for people as respect for craftsmanship

Mia Ljungblom, Thomas Taro Lennerfors

The purpose of this paper is to reach a deeper understanding of the Lean principle of respect for people (RFP to facilitate Lean implementation in Western organizations outside…

Celebrating a decade of International Journal of Lean Six Sigma – a bibliometric analysis to uncover the “as is” and “to be” states

Praveen Puram, Anand Gurumurthy

International Journal of Lean Six Sigma (IJLSS) has completed a decade. To celebrate the same, this study aims to review the articles published in IJLSS from its inception to the…

Using lean techniques and discrete-event simulation for performance improvement in an outpatient clinic

Kudret Demirli, Abdulqader Al Kaf, Mecit Can Emre Simsekler, Raja Jayaraman, Mumtaz Jamshed Khan, E. Murat Tuzcu

Increased demand and the pressure to reduce health-care costs have led to longer waiting time for patients to make appointments and during the day of hospital visits. The purpose…

Top management commitment and lean team members’ prosocial voice behaviour

Mohammad Abdul Latif, Jan Vang

Top management commitment (TMC) and prosocial voice behaviour in Lean teams are vital for the successful Lean implementation. This study aims to investigate how TMC influences…