Organizational culture and lean practices: analysis through a real case study

Nowadays, lean researchers are focused on the role of organizational culture and contingencies factors in the success and sustainability of lean management. This research aims at contributing to the academia debate by analysing through a deep case study whether organizational culture based on lean management can enable companies in overcoming differences related to the national culture. Moreover, the study wants to provide evidences that companies can leverage on lean practice in order to spread organizational culture among different country-based plants.