The challenges of lean manufacturing implementation in SMEs

Benchmarking

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 967-1002

  Rymaszewska, Anna Dorota ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VAASA   (Finland)

Author keywords

Lean implementation; Lean process; Lean production; Manufacturing strategy; Small to medium sized enterprises; Sme

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924456923     PISSN: 14635771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/BIJ-10-2012-0065     Document Type: Article

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