Corporate Environmental Management and Industry 4.0

Dear Colleagues,

The concept of Corporate Environmental Management (CEM) is already relatively well-settled in scientific-theoretical terms, and now faces the challenge of its extensive democratization, especially in companies in developing countries. It is possible to learn from the experiences of large companies and adapt them to all sizes and sectors. This movement toward greener companies has helped achieve several of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

The emergence of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (I4.0), ushering in a new era of information and automation technologies, extends the potential of CEM results, as it allows for the identification of environmental aspects and impacts more accurately, the prediction of environmental disasters and accidents increasingly in advance, the implementation of more effective environmental management systems and controls, the improvement of processes aimed at preserving the environment, the automation of training and evaluation of the workforce in relation to skills related to environmental management, etc. Therefore, I4.0 will enable the gain of precision, scale, and safety for processes, especially industrial ones, ensuring their improved environmental impacts and generating greater profitability for organizations.

In this sense, this Special Issue seeks papers addressing these themes jointly or separately developed from a variety of scientific methods (theoretical, qualitative, quantitative, or hybrids). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

• Impacts of I4.0 on Corporate Environmental Management;
• Proposals for integrating I4.0 in Corporate Environmental Management;
• HR training on using I4.0 in Corporate Environmental Management-related processes;
• Contributions of I4.0 and Corporate Environmental Management to the achievement of UN Development Goals;
• Influence of I4.0 and Corporate Environmental Management on business strategy;
• Deploying of the binomial I4.0 and Corporate Environmental Management in the supply chain;
• Etc.

Dr. Otávio José de Oliveira
Prof. Dr. Yiğit Kazançoğlu
Dr. Jayakrishna Kandasamy
Guest Editors

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• Corporate Environmental Management
• Industry 4.0
• UN Development Goals
• technologies
• automatization
• greening