Health care management review
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Health Care Manage Rev · Apr 2016
Effects of organizational context on Lean implementation in five hospital systems.
Despite broad agreement among researchers about the value of examining how context shapes implementation of improvement programs and projects, limited attention has been paid to contextual effects on implementation of Lean. ⋯ This study should alert researchers, managers, and teachers of management to ways that contexts shape Lean implementation and may affect other types of process redesign and quality improvement.