Abstract：This study builds up the relationships among lean production elements based on the Resource-based View and a survey of 118 manufacturing companies in the Pearl River Delta region of China by questionnaires. Result s show that: 1) Employee Involvement has positive effect on TQM, TPM, but not effect on JIT, and it has the indirectly effect on JIT through TQM/TPM; 2) TQM has the indirect effect on TPM; 3) TQM, TPM has positive effect on JIT, and TQM has the indirectly effect on JIT through TPM. The result of this study has important theoretical and practical value.
2012, Vol. 9 
