A revised bibliographic analysis of the Lean literature

Abstract

As part of an ongoing stream of research into the conception of ‘value’ within logistics and supply chain management (SCM), the authors presented a working paper at ISL 2015 (Francis et al., 2015) that explored the interpretation of this concept within the Lean paradigm (after Womack and Jones, 1996). Our paper presented an evolving bibliographic analysis (BA) approach. Using that approach, it also identified the 20 most highly cited Lean publications and presented a simple characterisation of them. Using the above as a starting point, the purpose of our ISL’16 paper is to detail a more fully developed BA methodology, and the significantly enhanced characterisation of the Lean literature derived by using it.