Inclusive innovation: Lean implementation with shop-floor employees at the base-of-the pyramid

Vathsala Wickramasinghe () and G.L.D. Wickramasinghe
Additional contact information
Vathsala Wickramasinghe: University of Moratuwa
G.L.D. Wickramasinghe: University of Moratuwa

Post-Print from HAL

Abstract: Building on the literature on inclusive innovation, we identify shop-floor employees, who are at the base-of-the pyramid of the organisational hierarchy in industrial firms as the target of concern for inclusive innovation. In this paper, we presents results of three empirical studies conducted in the implementation of lean manufacturing systems in Sri Lanka, where lean implementation is conceived as an active inclusion of shop-floor employees in the mainstream organisational decision-making process. For the study, quantitative research methodology was used and data were collected from shop-floor employees engaged full-time in export-apparel manufacturing firms that have implemented lean manufacturing systems in Sri Lanka.

Keywords: Participatory management; Social sustainability; Productivity improvement; Organizational culture; Employee engagement; Frugal innovation; Grassroots innovation; Workplace empowerment; Operational efficiency; Process optimization; Continuous improvement (Kaizen); Employee involvement; Lean management; Lean implementation; Base of the pyramid (BoP); Advanced Manufacturing Systems; Inclusive innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
Note: View the original document on HAL open archive server: https://hal.science/hal-05588219v1
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Published in International Conference of Inclusive Innovation and Innovative Management (ICIIIM 2015), 2015, Pathumthani, Thailand

Downloads: (external link)
https://hal.science/hal-05588219v1/document (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05588219

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Post-Print from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CCSD ().