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Sustainability is increasingly being addressed globally. The manufacturing industry faces various constraints and opportunities related to sustainable development. Currently, there are few methodological frameworks for evaluating sustainable organizational development. Assessing and improving organizational capacity is important for producers and r...
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... characteristics of the Romanian market are a skilled labor force that is competent in the field, a low/medium level of remuneration (compared to the salary level in the European Union), a university environment open to collaborations with the industry in order to develop the required competences, adaptability, average involvement of the state authorities, and the capacity for expansion and globalization [38- 44]. The process of production systematized for the manufacturing is shown in Figure 5. The definition of the process begins with the definition of the strategic elements. ...
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... The localized production model developed [3] proposes an implementation roadmap to help Saudi automotive firms of all sizes transition to smart, sustainable manufacturing [3]. It incorporates elements like training, circularity, micro factories and customization solutions enabled by Industry 4.0 technologies [10]. Effective adoption of this model can significantly enhance sustainability across the automotive value chain. ...
Saudi Arabia aims to build a sustainable and diversified economy by 2030. The automotive industry presents a key opportunity to achieve these goals through localization and the adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies. This research analyzes the impact of a developed localized production model for the automotive industry. The model promotes economic sustainability through domestic manufacturing, job creation and reduced oil dependence; environmental sustainability via the Industry 4.0 approach, which enhances customization, and social sustainability by developing human capital, transferring advanced technologies and stimulating job creation, thereby balancing the three spheres of sustainability. To attain the aim of the research, data were collected from 106 Saudi automobile companies. For the data collection, a questionnaire was designed, and authentication was performed according to the average level of use of Industry 4.0 and analysis of the level of implementation of the developed localized production model for the automotive industry of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The results shows that large automobile companies in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are employing the developed localized production model more than medium and smaller automobile companies, and as a result of this model employment, automobile companies’ customer satisfaction through customization and revenue has improved in an agile and lean manner.
... Identifying ways to improve the sustainability of production systems using sustainability assessment tools such as the LCA requires a broad set of metrics that demonstrate impacts relative to planetary boundaries [34]. "Sustainability assessment covers the organization's entire supply chain, including stakeholder interests and end-of-life instructions for products" [35]. More action is required to promote an understanding that the environment is not something that serves only to exploit and generate wealth. ...
... This explains the fact that decision-making values business opportunities (economic dimension) and uses environmental capital only in an exploitative way, which in turn "forces" organizations to be environmentally responsible (the environmental dimension). If sustainable development initially focused more on the environmental dimension, gradually, obligations concerning the social and economic Sustainability 2024, 16, 4207 6 of 30 dimensions were added [35]. Financial and non-financial factors should also be taken into consideration in relation to the costs and benefits of environmental issues. ...
... Therefore, organizations should implement various strategies according to the interests of their stakeholders and best practices to make their processes environmentally efficient and socially and economically viable [35]. However, what we have been noticing is a reconfiguration of interests, taking into consideration that the three dimensions of sustainability, sustainable development, sustainability, and corporate social responsibility are themes that have constantly been growing in current discourses, leading to new goals and strategies to achieve multiple objectives, but involving only one main target-environmental sustainability, counting on the engagement of those involved and focusing on the three dimensions. ...
For a long time, a company’s Product Development Process (PDP) was seen as supporting the operations department, although PDP decisions and mistakes have a considerable impact on market performance. This is critical even in agriculture where bad habits and practices in the PDP can lead rural producers to great losses. Therefore, this research investigates the effect of the PDP on the market performance of rural products (bananas) in the southern region of Brazil, based on two analyses: (i) how sustainability practices support the PDP phases and (ii) how the phases of the Product Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) mediate sustainability practices and PDP phases. This study presents a quantitative analysis using Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) and hierarchical ordinary least squares (OLS) regression of data obtained from a survey of 110 rural producers who directly participate in the banana production and planning process in southern Brazil. Our results show that sustainability practices support the PDP, and we confirm that the product development and post-development phase has an effect on market performance. In addition, we identify that in the pre-development phase of the PDP, dealing with rural products (bananas), the maturity stage of the LCA mediates sustainability. In the PDP development phase, we conclude that rural families who develop economic and environmental practices with their products, which are in the market growth phase may have reduced results. As for the post-development phase of the PDP, we conclude that when companies invest in environmental and social practices, there is a complete mediation of the effect, where these practices lose strength if the product is in the introductory and maturity phases in the market. In an original matter, our study contributes to demonstrating the value of the product life cycle for the Product Development Process in agriculture using sustainability practices through a systemic approach, filling the gap in the literature due to a lack of integrated research on these areas seen.
... Identifying ways to improve the sustainability of production systems using sustainability assessment tools such as LCA requires a broad set of metrics that demonstrate impacts relative to 5 planetary boundaries [34]. "Sustainability assessment covers the organization's entire supply chain, including stakeholder interests and end-of-life instructions for products" [35]. Understanding that there is still much to do realize that the environment is not something that serves only to exploit and generate wealth. ...
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... Therefore, organizations implement various strategies according to the interests of their stakeholders and best practices to make their processes environmentally efficient and socially and economically viable [35]. However, what we have been noticing is a reconfiguration of interests, taking into consideration that the tripod of sustainability, sustainable development, sustainability, and corporate social responsibility are themes that have constantly been growing in current discourses, leading to new goals and strategies to achieve multiple objectives, but involving only one main target -environmental sustainability, counting on the engagement of those involved and focusing on the three dimensions. ...
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... It helps distribute the available financial resources effectively among the entire organizational structure, allowing sustainability (Yadav et al. 2020b). According to Ivascu (2020), despite sustainable development, which is a voluntary approach, improving organizational conditions, thus contributing to its competitiveness, interested parties are only interested in this concept as long as they obtain better financial results (increased profit). Finally, De Sousa Jabbour et al. (2018a, b) state that organizations can only be competitive with total alignment with information technology, and the appropriate selection of I4.0 technologies to assist in environmentally sustainable decisions can allow for better strategic alignment. ...
Supply chain disruptions, intensified by black swan events such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war, have increased the interest in resilient supply chains, which can be achieved by adopting sustainable Industry 4.0 (I4.0) practices. However, the critical success factors (CSFs) for sustainable I4.0 in operations and supply chain management (S-OSCM4.0) are unclear, and there is a lack of a holistic and empirically validated taxonomy of CSFs from multiple stakeholders' perspectives to guide organizations in this transition. Moreover, developing countries face specific challenges that require prioritizing the proper set of CSFs for sustainable digitalization. Therefore, this paper aims to develop a CSFs-based taxonomy for S-OSCM4.0 to help organizations stay current in I4.0 adoption and integrate sustainability in OSCM. We first conducted a systematic literature review (SLR) of 131 papers using bibliometric and content analyses and synthesized the theoretical findings into an alpha taxonomy of CSFs following an inductive approach. Then, we employed a Delphi survey technique combining fuzzy logic to solicit experts' perceptions from a developing country to analyze and validate the taxonomy and determine the most pertinent CSFs, resulting in a beta taxonomy of CSFs for S-OSCM4.0. The developed taxonomy represents a pioneering managerial artefact that can guide sustainable development through an inclusive digital transformation with less environmental impact, contributing to decision-making in S-OSCM4.0, especially for operations in developing countries.
... The study by Baro-Tijerina et al. (2021) shows that Industry 4.0 tends to exert a new reorganization and level of control over the entire value chain. The study by Ivascu (2020) presents the concepts of value applied to technology combinations that can be applied to Bigliardi et al. (2022) Digital world Bigliardi et al. (2022) Real world Turel & Elife (2019) Services ( The third semantic grouping created was market. The market must be understood as the "place" in which the forces of supply and demand operate, through sellers and buyers, so that the transfer of ownership of the merchandise occurs through purchase and sale operations. ...
... The process attribute was found (Grabowska et al., 2022b;Mohammed & Trzcieliński, 2021) with the conception of logical sequencing of steps that constitute all production processes. However, several attributes of specific processes were found, all resulting from the influence of Industry 4.0, such as the decision-making process (Bayram & Ömer, 2022), manufacturing (Arucu, 2021;Cruzara et al., 2021;Jazzar et al., 2021;Omri, 2021), productive (Steffens, 2020;Turel & Elife, 2019); Reis, 2021), digital and physical (Carraro et al., 2019), intelligent (Sivanuja & Sandanayake, 2022), organizational (Ivascu, 2020) and ...
... It is a practical application of scientific knowledge in various areas of research. The technology attributes were found (Jazzar et al., 2021;Ferreira, 2019;Lazzareschi et al., 2021;Nwankwo, 2022;Arucu, 2021;Bajic et al., 2022;Checa & Alvarado, 2018;Ivascu, 2020;Reis, 2021), advanced technology (Sivanuja & Sandanayake, 2022;Črešnar et al., 2022;Lemos et al., 2022) and information and communication (Karanina et al., 2022;Turel & Elife, 2019). These informational technologies generate a series of realities whose attributes were found to be the internet of things (Jazzar et al., 2021;Gonçalves et al., 2022;Lakmali et al., 2020;Mohammed & Trzcieliński, 2021;Cruzara et al., 2021 ), which allows communication between objects, digitalization (Bajic et al., 2022;Črešnar et al., 2022;Gonçalves et al., 2022;Grabowska et al., 2022b;Schneider, 2019), as a reference to a world digital (Bigliardi et al., 2022) or virtual reality (Pató et al., 2022), as opposed to a real-world (Bigliardi et al., 2022). ...
Purpose: Scientific production has tried to understand the various evolutionary intricacies of Industry 4.0, the so-called fourth industrial revolution. As discoveries increase and deepen, there must also be an effort to understand the frontiers of scientific knowledge, its most noticeable and studied aspects, and those attributes that have only now been perceived. It is, therefore, necessary to periodically take stock of what science knows about the phenomenon to understand where it is headed and which paths have already been taken. Therefore, the need to take inventory of the current state of knowledge about Industry 4.0 was the theoretical justification for this study. Theoretical framework: The theoretical architecture of this study consisted of the transformations that the industrial revolutionary stages caused in production systems, firstly, and then for the entire society. It involves aspects from various areas of scientific knowledge to understand the different perceptions contained in the scientific literature on the phenomenon of Industry 4.0. Design/Methodology/Approach: The conceptual bibliographic method was used to generate answers to three guiding questions: What are the main approaches to Industry 4.0? What are its main attributes? What is its irradiation logic? All conceptual definitions in scientific studies published in English and Portuguese available in the Google Scholar database from 2019 to 2020 were analyzed, with a total of 19 studies. The semantic analysis technique was used to identify the approaches and attributes, which were then organized by semantic proximity, constituting the semantic groupings on which the results were generated and interpreted. Findings: The results showed the existence of eight groups of approaches (procedures, evolution, time, grouping, transformation, layer, organization, and model) and twelve groups of attributes (industrialization, transformation technologies, information technologies, integrated system, processes, society, quality, knowledge, planning, market, value chain, and automation). These discoveries made it possible to understand that Industry 4.0 has a driving force: knowledge, which spreads similarly in waves until it reaches the entire society and is not limited only to the interior of factories and economic organizations. Research, Practical, and Social Implications: Two implications of these findings stand out. The first is the dynamic nature of implementing Industry 4.0 in organizations, whether economic or not, which is done more quickly if knowledge and technologies are available or more slowly when expertise and technologies are fragile or non-existent. The second is teleological since the purpose of Industry 4.0 and all industrial revolutions is to continually improve production processes, even though these benefits often generate unwanted externalities, such as environmental impacts. This means that the progress of knowledge and its developments cannot be stopped but can be directed towards other purposes. Originality/Value: The main contribution of this study to science is to point out the current stage of the evolution of Industry 4.0 about previous revolutions. Three other contributions are also significant: identifying the main approaches to the phenomenon, its most prominent characteristics, and its irradiation dynamics.
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... Additionally, previous studies (e.g., Subrahmanya (2019), Janahi et al. (2022), and AlMalki and Durugbo (2023a)) argue that the consensus exercise afforded by the Delphi technique is relevant and convenient for triple helix studies because it allows subject matter experts from the institutional entities of the triple helix to gather, make, and revise choices on a topic. The Delphi technique is a well-established and mainstream methodology applied in production management research studies of Industry 4.0 with respect to manufacturing (Culot et al., 2020;Ivascu, 2020), SMEs (Moeuf et al., 2020), business networks (Schroeder et al., 2019), and the circular economy (Abdul-Hamid et al., 2021;Shayganmehr et al., 2021). Developed by research scientists at the RAND Corporation in the 1940s, Delphi is a group facilitation technique that selects experts and solicits the opinions of these experts on issues through multiple rounds to reach group consensus (Linstone and Turoff, 2002;Durugbo et al., 2021b). ...
Emergence of the fourth industrial revolution prompts digital transitions and transformations of economic sectors, with pressures for institutions to prepare and respond in a way that harnesses the progressive potentials of Industry 4.0 for socioeconomic growth. The purpose of this research is to evaluate core institutional change readiness factors for Industry 4.0, with focus on institutional innovation that sustains technology trajectories and supports technology use in an emerging economy. Using the Delphi methodology with a panel of 71 triple helix (i.e., university, industry, and government) experts, the research identifies, selects, and prioritises collaboration and capability readiness factors. Initial literature review identifies 50 readiness factors and subsequent non-parametric tests find that ‘clarity of goals and relevance’ and ‘innovating competencies’ are the topmost collaboration and capability factors, respectively. Discussions on these findings imply integrated analyses based on the triple helix as well as institutional and ‘clarity-creativity’ dyadic framings for technology management studies of Industry 4.0. The managerial implications of the research centre on factors-based recommendations concerning support systems for Industry 4.0 transdisciplinary collaboration and action plans for building digital capability, in furtherance of the fourth industrial revolution. Concluding the research is a highlight of the research limitations and potential future research areas.
... From the perspective of waste management, it can be seen that councils play an important role. A fuzzy modeling presents a framework that supports this idea (Cioca & Ivascu, 2017;Ivascu, 2020;Ivascu & Cioca, 2014;Paschek et al., 2018). These reports are made in a qualitative version, with preponderance, in which the environmental activities are emphasized. ...
The objective of the study is to elucidate the impact of a vigorous board on the performance of firms. The contributive concept of vigorous board has been formulated through data employment analysis while contemplating the seven attributes such as board meetings, non-duality, number of external directors, number of supervisors, audit committee member, the presence of female among board members, and incumbent CEO education. Significantly, the data of Romanian manufacturing firms have been accumulated for the years 2009–2019. To contemplate with deep insight, the moderating impact of environmental disclosure, environmental performance, green innovation, and innovation output has been accentuated for firm performance. Empirical underpinnings signify that environmental performance and green innovation are the catalytic moderators for escalating the firms’ performance under the aegis of vigorous board. Furthermore, environmental disclosure also increases the growth of Romanian companies, while innovation output remains stagnant. Under the aegis of upper echelon theory, theoretical contribution has been signified while emphasizing on environmental situation of Romanian firms. Remarkably, the moment quantile regression method demonstrates the long-term and short-term influence of the vigorous board, the size of the firms and the total sales, while the leverage and age of the CEO mitigate the firm performance in the short term.
... Smart banking is the latest 'Fourth Industrial Revolution'-4IR (Banking 4.0) banking revolution in the Fintech world aimed at providing banking solutions like checking, saving and investing and planning to meet the investors goal [187], [188]. Smart banking shows digital recruitment and a variety of innovative products that are delivered through a mobile application. ...
... The choice may depend on the requirements (customer applications) or market observations or the phase of the product's life, e.g., maturity [22]. At the same time, it is good to draw attention to the impact of the product on the natural environment or the need to design or modify the product according to the principles of sustainable development and circularity [66,67]. In the case of modifying (improving) a product, it is recommended that it be popular and widely available to meet the customers' expectations for this product as precisely as possible. ...
... The choice may depend on the requirements (customer applications) or market observations or the phase of the product's life, e.g., maturity [22]. At the same time, it is good to draw attention to the impact of the product on the natural environment or the need to design or modify the product according to the principles of sustainable development and circularity [66,67]. In ...
The idea of sustainable development (SD) forces companies to combine the quality development of products with the simultaneous care of the natural environment. These actions should start with the product design process. The aim of the study was to create a modified method of Quality Function Development (QFD-CE), which will support the design of new products or improve the existing products on the market. In the proposed method (QFD-CE), the method integrates techniques such as: SMARTER method, brainstorming (BM), the method of selecting a team of experts, kinship diagram, fixed sum scale, and Likert scale. A novelty compared to the traditional QFD methodology is that design goals are set not only based on customer expectations, but also considering the impact on the natural environment. The originality of this proposition comes to the practical inclusion of including sustainability development criteria. The proposed method can be used in companies that design new products and are focused on caring for the natural environment. The QFD-CE method test method was performed for photovoltaic panels (PV). As part of the proposed QFD-CE method, the sequence of design activities was determined so that they meet customer expectations and can be simultaneously implemented according to the idea of SD. This method can be used for any product, mainly those that have a significant impact on the natural environment.
