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20 - Disseminating Lean across the UK: A Personal Reflection

from Part III - Lean Production Around the World

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2021

Thomas Janoski
Affiliation:
University of Kentucky
Darina Lepadatu
Affiliation:
Kennesaw State University, Georgia
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Summary

Given just a month to compile this chapter and my role as a key actor in this story, what follows is necessarily a personal reflection on the lean journey in the UK. Many others will have their own stories to tell. Hopefully this narrative will be of value to future researchers drawing up a more comprehensive account.

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The Cambridge International Handbook of Lean Production
Diverging Theories and New Industries around the World
, pp. 490 - 506
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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