Acknowledgments: We thank Tran Quoc Trung for his assistance in providing information about the enterprise laws that were instituted in 2000, and we thank Dwayne Benjamin for sharing important data with us that he had developed together with Loren Brandt. Furthermore, we appreciate the comments provided by Paul Glewwe, as well as the many suggestions offered by the participants of the conferenc...

*Deenan Pillay, Joshua Herbeck, Myron S Cohen, Tulio de Oliveira, Christophe Fraser, Oliver Ratmann, Andrew Leigh Brown, Paul Kellam, on behalf of the PANGEA-HIV Consortium Wellcome Trust-Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa (DP, TdO); Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, London, UK (DP, TdO); Department of ...

Category of paper Research paper combined with a case study Purpose To demonstrate that lean management could be successfully applied in an enterprise from an Eastern European country like Romania. To propose solutions in order to improve the current management practices in the Romanian industry and to increase productivity in order to deal with global competition. To implement the customer-sup...