“…Therefore, the adoption of LM requires some level of adaptation in order to render it sustainable and useful to an organization, however, there is scarce evidence that such lean adaptations have been thoroughly studied in Colombian industry, and if the core principles of LM have been retained through the process. Instead, there is evidence pointing out that most of the early lean adopters in Colombia have done as a requirement from their customers, especially those working with automotive companies (Arrieta et al, 2011;Sanchez, 2017), or trough government founded initiatives (González Gaitán et al, 2018;León et al, 2017), which leads to a more constricted lean implementation. This approach seems to be consistent with the implementation of LM on other developing countries (Rajagopalan and Solaimani, 2019;Walter and Paladini, 2019), prompting authors such as Antony et al (2021) and Psomas (2021) to call for more country-related LM research in order to address the above mentioned issues.…”