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TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH GREEN, LEAN AND SIX SIGMA INTEGRATION AT SERVICE INDUSTRY: REVIEW AND FRAMEWORK

R. Caiado,Daniel Nascimento,O. Quelhas,G. Tortorella,L. Rangel

Published 2018 in Technological and Economic Development of Economy

ABSTRACT

In the last decades, sustainable development has increasingly gained importance to service industry and the integration between Green, Lean and Six Sigma approaches in service systems is necessary in order to balance the need for operational efficiency with environmental commitment and social fairness. Because of that, the purpose of this paper is to critically review the Lean and Lean Six Sigma (LSS) methodologies and highlight their importance to achieve sustainable services. To do this, a systematic literature review of the subjects under investigation was conducted. The study has two major contributions. First, it is one of the first researches that examine the compatibility and divergences of Green, Lean and Six Sigma concepts and implications regarding its sustainable implementation in service industry. Second, it provides a holistic Green LSS framework attempting to help practitioners to find ways of institutionalizing it in numerous kinds of services, by pointing out nine critical factors for its implementation, such as continuous customer satisfaction, ethical relations and regulatory compliance, focus on knowledge management and human behaviors, and effective Jidoka automation. The proposed framework indicates new paradigms and pathways to achieve the balance in technical, economic, social and environmental priorities in services.

PUBLICATION RECORD

  • Publication year

    2018

  • Venue

    Technological and Economic Development of Economy

  • Publication date

    2018-08-28

  • Fields of study

    Business, Environmental Science

  • Identifiers
    DOI 10.3846/TEDE.2018.3119
  • External record

    Open on Semantic Scholar

  • Source metadata

    Semantic Scholar

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