Commentaries on “The Lenses of Lean”
Abstract The phenomenon of the Toyota Production System (TPS) and the term “Lean” have received much attention from researchers and especially practitioners over the past 40 years. As scholarly perspectives on these topics continue to evolve, we invited Wally Hopp and Mark Spearman to contribute an essay to the JOM Forum that became “The Lenses of Lean,” and we invited several other prominent authors affiliated with Lean to react to that article and share their perspectives on Lean. We are delighted to have received four such contributions, which we have assembled here with the hope of furthering this important conversation (Note: For consistency of exposition, we have capitalized the term “Lean” throughout these commentaries when it is used in the phenomenological sense). —Tyson Browning and Suzanne de Treville
The lenses of lean: Visioning the science and practice of efficiency
Wallace J. Hopp, Mark S. Spearman · Journal of Operations Management
Substituting Human Decision-Making with Machine Learning: Implications for Organizational Learning
Natarajan Balasubramanian, Yang Ye, Mingtao Xu · Academy of Management Review
Assessing customer return behaviors through data analytics
Michael Ketzenberg, James D. Abbey, Gregory R. Heim, Subodha Kumar · Journal of Operations Management
Accelerating vehicle fleet turnover to achieve sustainable mobility goals
Sergey Naumov, David R. Keith, John D. Sterman · Journal of Operations Management
On making experimental design choices: Discussions on the use and challenges of demand effects, incentives, deception, samples, and vignettes
Stephanie Eckerd, Scott DuHadway, Elliot Bendoly, Craig R. Carter, Lutz Kaufmann · Journal of Operations Management
Task management in decentralized autonomous organization
Xi Zhao, Peilin Ai, Fujun Lai, Xin Luo, Jose Benitez · Journal of Operations Management
The association between supply chain structure and transparency: A large‐scale empirical study
Jury Gualandris, Annachiara Longoni, Davide Luzzini, Mark Pagell · Journal of Operations Management
Breaking out of the pandemic: How can firms match internal competence with external resources to shape operational resilience?
Yuan Li, Xincheng Wang, Tianyu Gong, Haifeng Wang · Journal of Operations Management