An empirical-exploratory study of the status of lean manufacturing in India

International Journal of Business Excellence

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 395-412

  Garza Reyes, Jose Arturo ^a   Parkar, Harshad Sudhir ^a   Oraifige, Ilias ^a   Soriano Meier, Horacio ^b   Harmanto, Dani ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DERBY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

India; Lean manufacturing; Operational and quality improvement; Survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863955012     PISSN: 17560047     EISSN: 17560055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBEX.2012.047906     Document Type: Article

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