A QUALITATIVE STUDY ABOUT THE LEAN MANAGEMENT ROLE IN UNIVERSITY

Third millennium has started in a way that it seems as time passes by, the administrative and management methods of manufacturing and service-providing organizations are becoming less similar to the earlier times. Organization image in the current business era is a set of procedures with the aim of providing values for the stakeholders; and providing values for the stakeholders depends on the value creation in the organization itself. One of the modern management perspectives is lean thinking. Thus the current research aim is the role of lean management in university entrepreneurship by the use of a qualitative study. To this aim qualitative method of thematic analysis was used and the results achieved from 13 interviews indicated 7 main themes providing the factors existing in lean management for university entrepreneurship.

Lean Management, Entrepreneurship, Stakeholders in Higher Education.