A Review Of The Iglc Conference´S Main Topics
International Journal of Development Research
A Review Of The Iglc Conference´S Main Topics
Received 14th December, 2018; Received in revised form 18th January, 2019; Accepted 16th February, 2019; Published online 31st March, 2019
Copyright © 2019, Fabiano Barreto Romanel et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
On 1990´s, the Toyota Production System (TPS) started a new era for world industry, when releases the concept of Lean Thinking, transposed for construction by Lauri Koskela (1992) with eleven principles. In a scenario of floating demand, this concept is related to productivity, combining philosophy, system and tools. The Lean Thinking overcome Ford´s mass production system providing few amounts of pieces, requiring less space, resources and inventory of raw material on productive process. In this context, International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC) is the best and more respectful congress of lean construction, that disclose papers, in different approaches. Besides the subject importance, it was not founded a comprehensive bibliometric study of all IGLC´s papers, since the first edition. So, the objective of this paper is to identify the main topics, the main countries and the most important authors of IGLC Conferences. This work uses bibliometric technics on the 1.557 IGLC papers, from 1996 to 2018, highlighting authors, country and key words. The data bibliometric treatment is presented by descriptive statistics, obtained with Microsoft Excel tables and graphics illustrated and quantitative and qualitative analysis. As a main result, it created a tag cloud, identifying the most relevant topics of lean construction research.
