Greece and Portugal are the weakest European economies. Their accession to the European Community provided a stimulus for policies to improve the competitiveness of their industries, in order to withstand competition within the Single Market. Support through Community regional development...

Purpose This paper aims to present a conceptual model, called LOOP, an acronym for Leadership, Organization, Operation and People, regarding the pull system implementation in Lean companies. Lean should be holistically implemented to achieve the performance for what it is known. Pull is one of...