Despite their heterogeneity, Industry 4.0 enabling technologies have been recognized as a unique multi-faceted set of innovation that is able to provide disruptive innovation and define a new industrial paradigm, whose pervasiveness is experienced irrespective of sector, company size, or adopted business model. In this paper, we present the preliminary results of an analysis, based […]
Purpose – The paper presents some methodological notes for universities to support the writing of their own sustainability report. Sustainability reports are documents organizations use to report the company’s identity, governance, and values, as well as the impact of everyday activities and topics considered as relevant to sustainable development (Global Reporting Initiative, 2013). In the […]
Purpose – This paper investigates the strategies and policies that a sample of selected small and medium companies in a given geographic area (i.e., Apulia region, in Southern Italy) adopt with respect to sustainability issues. The companies have been selected as they are considered (by the local industrial associations) as sustainability champions in the targeted […]
Purpose – The goal of the paper is to clarify the concept of social innovation, by assuming a compact working definition of social innovation, which keeps its key elements, and providing a tool to understand which actors intervene in the process, in which phase, and according to which driver. Design/methodology/approach – Following the example of […]
Eco-Industrial Parks (EIPs) are defined as industrial clusters wherein a community of firms linked in a network of collaborative relationships exploit new business opportunities so as to increase their economic performance, by minimizing the environmental impact and creating benefits for the local community (Côté and Cohen- Rosenthal, 1998). A number of EIPs have recently spread […]