@ARTICLE{Bathory_Zsuzsanna_Qualitative_2020, author={Bathory, Zsuzsanna}, volume={vol. 11}, number={No 2}, journal={Management and Production Engineering Review}, howpublished={online}, year={2020}, publisher={Production Engineering Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Association for Production Management}, abstract={Lean management has become a much-researched topic in operations management. Beyond its technical aspects, nowadays the analysis of soft factors (corporate culture, organization, management, human resource management, knowledge transfer practices) have come to the fore. However, there are few sources available to the lean organization to find out what organizational changes are taking place alongside the lean application, and what organizational structures are being developed. In our study first we deal with the literature-based concepts of lean organizational structure and with the international examples, and then through five Hungarian corporate solutions and with help of the literature of organizational theories we synthesize the lean organizational forms.}, title={Qualitative study on the value stream-based organization: lessons from Hungarian production plants}, URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/116848/PDF/507-kolor.pdf}, doi={10.24425/mper.2020.133725}, keywords={Lean organization, value stream-based organization, matrix organization, horizontal organization}, }