Towards lean for sustainability: Understanding the interrelationships between lean and sustainability from a systems thinking perspective
Towards lean for sustainability: Understanding the interrelationships between lean and sustainability from a systems thinking perspective
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迈向可持续发展的精益：从系统思维的角度理解精益和可持续发展之间的相互关系
DOI：
10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.11.132
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发表时间：
2017
影响因子：
11.1
通讯作者：
Javier Calvo‐Amodio
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作者：
Hilda C. Martínez León;Javier Calvo‐Amodio
在过去的几年里，企业面临着越来越大的压力，要求他们在环境和社会影响方面负责任地管理自己的运营。这促使公司和研究人员寻找实现可持续运营的方法。研究精益和可持续性之间的关系似乎是回答如何整合并因此共同部署这两个倡议的问题的切实途径。尽管对精益和可持续性相互关系的调查可能是最近研究的主题之一，但大多数研究工作并没有充分地对可持续性的三重底线方面进行分析。先前研究的有限视角使我们对精益和可持续性之间的协同作用的理解支离破碎，这是开发整合方法的先决条件。这项工作通过在系统思维的视角下分析精益和可持续性，更具体地说，是通过使用区别、系统、关系和视角理论，扩展了以前的文献综述。为了加深我们的理解，我们从运营、财务、社会和环境的角度识别和分析精益和可持续发展之间的相互关系及其对绩效的影响。从我们的审查中，我们确定了一套构建模块，用于开发可持续发展精益整合框架，旨在促进有关公司如何将可持续发展融入其运营的讨论。
Over the last years, there has been growing pressure on businesses to manage their operations responsibly in regards to their environmental and societal impacts. This has motivated companies and researchers to identify ways to implementing sustainable operations. Studying the relationships between lean and sustainability appears to be a tangible way to answer the question of how to integrate and, therefore, jointly deploy these two initiatives. Notwithstanding that the investigation of lean and sustainability interrelationships has been perhaps one of the most recently researched topics, the majority of the research efforts do not adequately frame their analysis on the triple-bottom-line aspects of sustainability. The limited perspective of previous studies leaves us with a fragmented understanding of the synergies between lean and sustainability, a prerequisite for developing integration approaches. This work expands previous literature reviews by analyzing lean and sustainability under a systems thinking lens, more specifically by using distinctions, systems, relations, and perspectives theory. To sharpen our understanding, we identify and analyze the interrelationships between lean and sustainability and their impact on performance from the operational, financial, societal, and environmental viewpoints. From our review, we identified a set of building blocks for developing a lean-for-sustainability integration framework with the intention of promoting the discussion on how companies can embed sustainability into their operations.