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In the first part it presents the relevance of the theme and in the second part it presents the papers included in the special issue, including their themes, findings and novel contributions.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Findings<\/jats:title>The individual findings by the papers present significant new contributions in a deeper insight of the \u201clean\u201d and \u201cagile\u201d philosophies, or approaches in, and to, organizations. It could be noticed that the controversies of the issue \u201clean vs. agile\u201d still remain. However, it could be said that an eventual further investigation in the phenomenology of \u201clean\u201d and \u201cagile\u201d will be more informed after consideration of the results presented in this special issue.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Research limitations\/implications<\/jats:title>Further investigation should be undertaken on a more abstract \u201clevel\u201d of the theories of \u201clean\u201d and \u201cagile\u201d and their mutual relationship, such as theories about the internal processes of \u201clean\u201d\/\u201cagile\u201d users, general \u201clean\u201d\/\u201cagile\u201d theories, epistemology of \u201clean\u201d\/\u201cagile\u201d, and ontology of \u201clean\u201d\/\u201cagile\u201d, and relationship with learning organization and chaordic organization.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Practical implications<\/jats:title>Readers, both theoreticians and practitioners, will find in this editorial a \u201cguide\u201d to the issues of their interest concerning the valuable explanations, ideas and tools, presented in the special issue, for both concrete applications in enterprises and organizations, and for further research and development of learning, complex and sustainable organizations, and towards new ideas and insights generation.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Originality\/value<\/jats:title>This editorial presents an analysis of the special issue on \u201clean vs agile\u201d, contributing to the higher levels of the theories of \u201clean\u201d and \u201cagile\u201d and their mutual relationship, namely to the theories about the internal processes of \u201clean\u201d\/\u201cagile\u201d users, general \u201clean\u201d\/\u201cagile\u201d theories, and epistemology of \u201clean\u201d\/\u201cagile\u201d.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1108\/09696471211219859","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2012,4,8]],"date-time":"2012-04-08T03:19:17Z","timestamp":1333855157000},"page":"176-182","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Lean vs agile from an organizational sustainability, complexity and learning perspective"],"prefix":"10.1108","volume":"19","author":[{"given":"Goran D.","family":"Putnik","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]}],"member":"140","reference":[{"key":"key2022022020214855900_b1","unstructured":"BS11 (2011), Second International Conference on Business Sustainability, 2011 \u2013 Management, Technology and Learning for Individuals, Organizations and Society in Turbulent Environments, University of Minho and Superior Institute of Engineering of Porto, Povoa de Varzim, Portugal, available at: http:\/\/labve.dps.uminho.pt\/bs11\/."},{"key":"key2022022020214855900_b2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Love, T. 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