Sustainable development is one of the key challenges of the twentieth century. In this field food industry has a key role because of the massive exploitation of soil and natural resources, that consequently lead to a significant environmental impact along the supply chain. Moreover firms in the food industry are subject to high social pressure by many stakeholders, the most relevant being the governments and consumers, due to the importance of health and safety issues related to food. Therefore firms need to give response to such stakeholders in order to survive in the market. Nowadays sustainable development is not to be seen as a burden to firms, since it is now a possible source of competitive advantage. In particular this work wants to investigate to which extent Italian firms of the food industry are aware of such opportunity and how they consequently approach it. The work begins with a literature review concerning the integration of sustainability into supply chain management; once I gained familiarity with the subject, I conducted statistical analysis on a database built after submitting a questionnaire to Italian food firms. The work has two main objectives: first, an overview of sustainability in the food sector is offered, and then relations among motivation factors, supply chain programs and performance are investigated. In particular, I investigated if there is a relation between firms' characteristics and their supply chain's structure with motivation factors and the perceptions of barriers to a sustainable food supply chain. Moreover, the analysis shows how such motivations translate into concrete actions along the supply chain, and finally defines the magnitude of their impact on firms' sustainable performance.
La sostenibilità è una delle sfide chiave del ventunesimo secolo. Il settore alimentare in questo ricopre un ruolo di primo piano, sia per l'intenso sfruttamento del suolo e del consumo delle risorse, sia per l'impatto ambientale e sociale delle attività produttive e logistiche di filiera. Inoltre, l'importanza delle questioni legate alla salute ed alla sicurezza degli alimenti fanno sì che le imprese siano sottoposte alla pressione di consumatori ed enti governativi alle quali devono necessariamente rispondere. Il presente lavoro di tesi vuole indagare l'awareness e l'approccio delle aziende del settore alimentare italiano in relazione a queste tematiche. A seguito dell'analisi della letteratura sul tema della sostenibilità all'interno della food supply chain sono state condotte delle analisi statistiche su un database costruito a valle di un questionario rivolto alle imprese del settore alimentare italiano con il duplice obiettivo di offrire una panoramica del settore dal punto di vista della sostenibilità e di indagare in particolare quali fattori ostacolano o motivano le aziende all'implementazione di strategie sostenibili, come le motivazioni si traducano in programmi per la gestione della food supply chain ed infine quale sia la correlazione tra i programmi e le performance di sostenibilità dell'impresa.
La sostenibilità della supply chain dell'industria alimentare italiana : motivazioni, barriere, programmi e prestazioni
SARRECCHIA, FRANCESCA
2013/2014
Abstract
Sustainable development is one of the key challenges of the twentieth century. In this field food industry has a key role because of the massive exploitation of soil and natural resources, that consequently lead to a significant environmental impact along the supply chain. Moreover firms in the food industry are subject to high social pressure by many stakeholders, the most relevant being the governments and consumers, due to the importance of health and safety issues related to food. Therefore firms need to give response to such stakeholders in order to survive in the market. Nowadays sustainable development is not to be seen as a burden to firms, since it is now a possible source of competitive advantage. In particular this work wants to investigate to which extent Italian firms of the food industry are aware of such opportunity and how they consequently approach it. The work begins with a literature review concerning the integration of sustainability into supply chain management; once I gained familiarity with the subject, I conducted statistical analysis on a database built after submitting a questionnaire to Italian food firms. The work has two main objectives: first, an overview of sustainability in the food sector is offered, and then relations among motivation factors, supply chain programs and performance are investigated. In particular, I investigated if there is a relation between firms' characteristics and their supply chain's structure with motivation factors and the perceptions of barriers to a sustainable food supply chain. Moreover, the analysis shows how such motivations translate into concrete actions along the supply chain, and finally defines the magnitude of their impact on firms' sustainable performance.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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