The Routledge Companion to Lean Management

Interest in the phenomenon known as "lean" has grown significantly in recent years. This is the first volume to provide an academically rigorous overview of the field of lean management, introducing the reader to the application of lean in diverse application areas, from the production floor to sales and marketing, from the automobile industry to academic institutions.


The volume collects contributions from well-known lean experts and up-and-coming scholars from around the world. The chapters provide a detailed description of lean management across the manufacturing enterprise (supply chain, accounting, production, sales, IT etc.), and offer important perspectives for applying lean across different industries (construction, healthcare, logistics). The contributors address challenges and opportunities for future development in each of the lean application areas, concluding most chapters with a short case study to illustrate current best practice. The book is divided into three parts:


The Lean Enterprise


Lean across Industries


A Lean World.


This handbook is an excellent resource for business and management students as well as any academics, scholars, practitioners, and consultants interested in the "lean world."

1. The Evolution of Lean Thinking and Practice (Daniel T. Jones and James P. Womack)

2. The Toyota Way: Striving for Excellence (Jeffrey K. Liker)
Part I: The Lean Enterprise

3. Lean Production (Pauline Found and John Bicheno)

4. Lean Leadership (Michael Ballé)

5. Lean Innovation (Gü nther Schuh, Stefan Rudolf, and Christian Mattern)

6. Lean Product Development (Monica Rossi, James Morgan, and John Shook)

7. Lean Systems Engineering (Cecilia Haskins and Bohdan W. Oppenheim)

8. Lean Logistics (Michel Baudin)

9. Lean Safety (Robert B. Hafey)

10. Lean Teams (Desiré e van Dun and Celeste Wilderom)

11. Lean IT (Pä r Å hlströ m, Ryusuke Kosuge, and Magnus Mä hring)

12. Lean Sales & Marketing (Brent Wahba)

13. Lean Branding (Laura Busche)

14. Lean Accounting (Brian H. Maskell)

15. Lean Auditing (James C. Paterson)

16. Lean Remanufacturing (Elzbieta Pawlik, Jonathan Corney, and Winifred Ijomah)

17. Lean and Green (Keivan Zokaei, Ioannis Manikas, and L. Hunter Lovins)

18. Lean Purchasing (Tim Torvatn, Ann-Charlott Pedersen, and Elsebeth Holmen)

19. Lean Supply Chains (Jon Gosling, Maneesh Kumar, and Mohamed Naim)

20. Lean Distribution (Matthias Holweg and Andreas Reichhart)

21. Lean After-Sales Services (Barbara Resta, Paolo Gaiardelli, Stefano Dotti, and Dario Luise)

22. Lean Corporations (Torbjø rn H. Netland)

Part II: Lean Across Industries

23. Lean Healthcare (Daniel Jones)

24. Lean Construction (Glenn Ballard)

25. Lean Engineer-to-Order Manufacturing (Daryl J. Powell and Aldert van der Stoel)

26. Lean M