The impact of lean practices on performance: based on meta-analysis and Bayesian network

It has always been the primary concern of the researchers and practitioners to carry out lean production successfully in enterprises. Most of the existing studies use performance as a measure to investigate the impact of lean practices on performance through empirical methods, and stated that lean practices have a positive impact on enterprise performance. However, there is a scarcity of in-depth studies on the non-linear relationship between lean practices and enterprise performance. In this paper, a composite approach was proposed to solve this problem. First, the relationship between lean practices and enterprise performance was examined by Meta-analysis. Then based on the analysis result, a Bayesian network was constructed, which was used to analyse the non-linear relationship between lean practices and enterprise performance. The results indicated that lean practices have positive effects on operational performance and non-operational performance. However, the probabilities of different enterprise pe...