Soft lean practices and organizational resilience in the service sector

Abstract

This paper aims to examine the relationship between the implementation of soft lean practices and organizational resilience development in the service sector.Design/methodology/approachA mixed-methods explanatory design that relied on two sequential and complementary phases was adopted. In the first phase, a quantitative analysis was performed based on data collected from practitioners from service organizations, allowing the identification of the significance of this relationship. In the second phase, the authors used semi-structured interviews with experts to qualitatively assess how this relationship occurs. (...)