Lean principles, practices, and impacts: a study on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 241, Issue 1-2, 2016, Pages 457-474

  Zhou, Bin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON DOWNTOWN   (United States)

Author keywords

Lean manufacturing; Lean tools; Probability; SMEs; Supply chain

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863317713     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-012-1177-3     Document Type: Article

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