Applications of Leagility in Manufacturing and Service Industries

Abstract

Leagility is a new paradigm which combines both lean and agile concepts together. The aim of current study is to constitute a vast literature of leagility in manufacturing and service sectors categorizing the existing studies and to explore the limitations and future research directions. There are 40 research articles selected for this study and classified based on year, research methods, publisher, journal and application on leagility. Then the identification of limitations and future research directions from the articles are reviewed. The finding suggests that leagility is explored more in supply chain and it requirements to be looked into other sectors. The theoretical background is made by developing more conceptual models, frameworks and empirical testing in manufacturing, automobile, healthcare and Information Technology (IT). The validation of the models has been examined by real-time case studies. The reader can understand that leagility is applied mainly in supply chain as decoupling point and emerging concept in market. For researcher, it would have a widespread of ideas for research.