“…Many researchers have pointed to the gap that often exists between the rhetoric and reality of change initiatives (Zbaracki, 1998, Gallear and Ghobadian, 2004, Bendell, 2005, Venkateswarlu and Nilakant, 2005, Soltani et al, 2007, Green, 2012. Several studies have shown that there are considerable differences between Lean as practiced in reality compared to many descriptions in literature (Poksinska et al, 2010, Brännmark et al, 2012.…”