The role of culture in implementing lean production system

IFIP International Federation for Information Processing

Volumn 246, Issue , 2007, Pages 413-422

  Wong, Meiling ^a,b  

^a TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIN YI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Lean production; Organization culture; SDWT

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

INTERACTING ELEMENTS; LEAN MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; LEAN PRODUCTION; LEAN PRODUCTION SYSTEM; ORGANIZATION CULTURE; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURES; SDWT; TAIWANESE ENTERPRISE;

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 37549021105     PISSN: 15715736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-74157-4_49     Document Type: Conference Paper

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