Sustainability awareness is continuously raising and even UN and EU defined a set of sustainable development goals in their 2030 agendas. Considering the importance of manufacturing industries in our economy and their social and environmental impacts, they are pushed to enhance their sustainability performances. For this reason, it is fundamental to understand how sustainability-related performances are assessed by firms. Although many frameworks and empirical studies have been published in literature to investigate sustainability performances in companies at an industrial level, few extensive empirical studies have been accomplished about Italian manufacturing SMEs. Therefore, this thesis offers a contribution to the research, assessing the level of adoption of sustainability-related indicators through an empirical investigation in Italian manufacturing plastics and textile companies. The sample is of 90 firms and the geographic focus in Lombardy, considering its relevance in the national industrial landscape. The reference industrial sustainability performance measurement system (ISPMS) is the one developed by Cagno et al. (2019). It was analysed how the number of indicators measured varies according to the industrial sector, company size, sustainability awareness, number of certifications, barriers perceived and supply chain commitment and pairwise cross analysis permitted to underline whether some variables act as mediators or moderators.
La consapevolezza riguardo la sostenibilità sta continuamente crescendo e persino le Nazioni Unite e l’Unione Europea, all’interno delle loro agende per il 2030, hanno definito un set di obiettivi per uno sviluppo sostenibile. Considerando l’importanza delle industrie manifatturiere nella nostra economia e i loro impatti sociale ed ambientale, queste sono spinte a migliorare le loro performance di sostenibilità. Per questa ragione, è fondamentale comprendere come tali performance siano valutate dalle imprese. Nonostante in letteratura siano stati pubblicati molti frameworks e studi empirici al fine di investigare le performance di sostenibilità nelle imprese ad un livello di sostenibilità industriale, sono stati compiuti pochi studi empirici estensivi sulle PIM italiane manifatturiere. Dunque, questa tesi offre un contributo alla ricerca valutando il livello di adozione degli indicatori di sostenibilità attraverso un’indagine empirica nelle imprese manifatturiere italiane della plastica e del tessile. Il campione è di 90 imprese ed il focus geografico è la Lombardia, considerandone la rilevanza nel panorama industriale nazionale. L’ISPMS usato come referenza è quello sviluppato in Cagno et al. (2019). Si è analizzato come il numero di indicatori misurati vari in relazione al settore industriale, alla dimensione dell’impresa, alla consapevolezza di cosa sia la sostenibilità, al numero di certificazioni, alle barriere percepite e all’interessamento della supply chain. Inoltre, delle analisi incrociate hanno permesso di indentificare se alcune variabili si comportassero come mediatori o moderatori.
Industrial sustainability performance measurement : empirical evidence from plastics and textile Italian SMEs
TRITARELLI, CRISTIANO
2019/2020
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Sustainability awareness is continuously raising and even UN and EU defined a set of sustainable development goals in their 2030 agendas. Considering the importance of manufacturing industries in our economy and their social and environmental impacts, they are pushed to enhance their sustainability performances. For this reason, it is fundamental to understand how sustainability-related performances are assessed by firms. Although many frameworks and empirical studies have been published in literature to investigate sustainability performances in companies at an industrial level, few extensive empirical studies have been accomplished about Italian manufacturing SMEs. Therefore, this thesis offers a contribution to the research, assessing the level of adoption of sustainability-related indicators through an empirical investigation in Italian manufacturing plastics and textile companies. The sample is of 90 firms and the geographic focus in Lombardy, considering its relevance in the national industrial landscape. The reference industrial sustainability performance measurement system (ISPMS) is the one developed by Cagno et al. (2019). It was analysed how the number of indicators measured varies according to the industrial sector, company size, sustainability awareness, number of certifications, barriers perceived and supply chain commitment and pairwise cross analysis permitted to underline whether some variables act as mediators or moderators.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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