The rapidly changing and highly competitive market that has put the companies under immense pressure towards adopting sustainable practices, in terms balancing among economic, environmental and social performances. So, in this research, a Systematic literature review is conducted to identify the actual possibilities of combining lean and green practices and implementing them, where lean practices mainly focusing on customers’ demand, and green practices mainly focusing on reducing the business’ environmental impact. But, the leangreen practices are still a relatively new approach, which lacks a clear and structured research definition, and of significant evidence of successful cases in the practice. In [19] Researchers have suggested that adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies which can strongly influence the economic pillar of sustainability, whilst having overarching relationship with the environmental and social aspects. An integrated framework that combines lean practices, green practices and Industry 4.0 which was inspired from the authors of [19] and modified the framework as per the requirements of the agriculture in this research work; and it is believed to achieve favourable results upon its implementation in agricultural industry. The theoretical contribution of this research work lies in the development of a novel integration framework that combines the concepts of lean practices and green practices with Industry 4.0 technologies. The framework is divided into six phases and twenty-seven easy steps; and will be extremely beneficial to practitioners in improving the economic and environmental performance of the agricultural industry. In future, the research work can provide a concrete foundation in discussing the Green agriculture facet with Industry 4.0 for optimized social, economic and environmental performance.
Il mercato in rapida evoluzione e altamente competitivo che ha sottoposto le aziende ad un'enorme pressione verso l'adozione di pratiche sostenibili, in termini di bilanciamento tra performance economiche, ambientali e sociali. Quindi, in questa ricerca, viene condotta una revisione sistematica della letteratura per identificare le effettive possibilità di combinare pratiche snelle e verdi e implementarle, dove pratiche snelle si concentrano principalmente sulla domanda dei clienti e pratiche verdi concentrandosi principalmente sulla riduzione dell'impatto ambientale dell'azienda. Ma le pratiche leangreen sono ancora un approccio relativamente nuovo, che manca di una definizione di ricerca chiara e strutturata e di prove significative di casi di successo nella pratica. In [19] i ricercatori hanno suggerito l'adozione di tecnologie dell'Industria 4.0 che possono influenzare fortemente il pilastro economico della sostenibilità, pur avendo una relazione generale con gli aspetti ambientali e sociali. Un quadro integrato che combina pratiche snelle, pratiche verdi e Industria 4.0 che è stato ispirato dagli autori di [19] e ha modificato il quadro secondo i requisiti dell'agricoltura in questo lavoro di ricerca; e si ritiene che ottenga risultati favorevoli dopo la sua implementazione in industria agricola. Il contributo teorico di questo lavoro di ricerca risiede nello sviluppo di un nuovo framework di integrazione che combina i concetti di pratiche snelle e pratiche verdi con le tecnologie dell'Industria 4.0. Il framework è suddiviso in sei fasi e ventisette semplici passaggi; e sarà estremamente vantaggioso per i professionisti nel migliorare le prestazioni economiche e ambientali del settore agricolo. In futuro, il lavoro di ricerca può fornire una base concreta per discutere l'aspetto dell'agricoltura verde con l'Industria 4.0 per prestazioni sociali, economiche e ambientali ottimizzate.
Lean and green management
KATHIRVEL, VISHNU PRABHU
2019/2020
Abstract
The rapidly changing and highly competitive market that has put the companies under immense pressure towards adopting sustainable practices, in terms balancing among economic, environmental and social performances. So, in this research, a Systematic literature review is conducted to identify the actual possibilities of combining lean and green practices and implementing them, where lean practices mainly focusing on customers’ demand, and green practices mainly focusing on reducing the business’ environmental impact. But, the leangreen practices are still a relatively new approach, which lacks a clear and structured research definition, and of significant evidence of successful cases in the practice. In [19] Researchers have suggested that adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies which can strongly influence the economic pillar of sustainability, whilst having overarching relationship with the environmental and social aspects. An integrated framework that combines lean practices, green practices and Industry 4.0 which was inspired from the authors of [19] and modified the framework as per the requirements of the agriculture in this research work; and it is believed to achieve favourable results upon its implementation in agricultural industry. The theoretical contribution of this research work lies in the development of a novel integration framework that combines the concepts of lean practices and green practices with Industry 4.0 technologies. The framework is divided into six phases and twenty-seven easy steps; and will be extremely beneficial to practitioners in improving the economic and environmental performance of the agricultural industry. In future, the research work can provide a concrete foundation in discussing the Green agriculture facet with Industry 4.0 for optimized social, economic and environmental performance.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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