Teaching-led universities have been more open than research-intensive institutions to adopting a Japanese manufacturing technique designed to cut out "wasteful" inefficiency as they face a tougher fight for survival, it has been suggested.

Zoe Radnor, professor in operations management at Cardiff Business School, said that post-1992 institutions appeared keener on taking up and using the "Lean" system to give them...

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