The survival of any organization depends upon its competitive edge. Even though Lean is one of the most powerful quality improvement methodologies, nearly two-thirds of the Lean implementations results in failures and less than one-fifth of those implemented have sustained results. One of the most significant tasks of top management is to identify, understand and deploy the significant Lean pra...

We examined how listeners circumscribe referential domains for referring expressions by monitoring participant’s eye movements as they engaged in a referential communication task with another naïve participant.