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  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,722 Views
17 Pages

9 July 2025

Industry 4.0 and Industry 5.0 are reshaping business models and scientific concepts, bringing challenges and opportunities. Stakeholders require a performance measurement system that enables them to address challenges and effectively capture opportun...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,735 Views
22 Pages

26 August 2015

Promoting the development of renewable resources industry is an effective way to solve the problems of resources shortage and environmental pollution in China. In this paper, studies have found that “market structure” and “ownership structure”, namel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,340 Views
21 Pages

Industrial Performance: An Evolution Incorporating Ethics in the Context of Industry 4.0

  • Lamia Berrah,
  • Vincent Cliville,
  • Damien Trentesaux and
  • Claude Chapel

17 August 2021

This article addresses the issue of the industrial performance model and its evolution to cope with the context of Industry 4.0. With its digitalisation, intelligent/autonomous systems and wealth of data, Industry 4.0 offers opportunities that can ac...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Manufacturing and Supply Chain in the Context of Industry 4.0: Challenges and Opportunities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,865 Views
24 Pages

Sustainable Lean Performance Potential Amidst the Transition Process from Industry 4.0 to Industry 5.0

  • Sanja Stanisavljev,
  • Dragan Ćoćkalo,
  • Mihalj Bakator,
  • Marijana Vidas-Bubanja and ,
  • Luka Djordjević,
  • Borivoj Novaković and
  • Stefan Ugrinov
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

30 June 2025

This study examines how selected technological and human-centered factors affect sustainable lean performance potential (SLPP) in manufacturing enterprises within the context of Industry 4.0 transition to Industry 5.0. The relationship between SLPP a...

(This article belongs to the Section Manufacturing Processes and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,386 Views
17 Pages

24 April 2023

After the COVID-19 pandemic, the bio-industry is becoming increasingly important. Therefore, it is necessary to respond to the changed environment after COVID-19 by analyzing the bio-industry situation before the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, Korea...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Circular Business Model Innovation for a Circular Bioeconomy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
15,825 Views
18 Pages

22 March 2021

The flexible packaging industry has registered a significant growth over the last years, especially due to rising demand from healthcare, automotive, construction, food, beverage, and retail industries. It is essential for the production plants to re...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,100 Views
16 Pages

28 May 2021

Many studies advance the contemporary technologies of Industry 4.0. However, relatively little is known about how Industry 4.0 affects corporate financial performance. Using a survey, bootstrap sampling, and structural-equation modeling, this study e...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,646 Views
28 Pages

14 August 2024

Manufacturing management and operations place heavy emphasis on monitoring and improving production performance. This supervision is accomplished through strategies of manufacturing performance management, a set of measurements and methods used to mo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Manufacturing and Industrial Automation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,497 Views
24 Pages

27 May 2020

This study investigates the correlation between mergers and acquisitions (M&As) activities and industry-level performance. While extensive research on M&As has focused on financial performance at the firm-level around the merger announcement,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Business Analytics and Data Mining for Business Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
8,722 Views
13 Pages

Workplace Innovation and Organizational Performance in the Hospitality Industry

  • Jol Stoffers,
  • Klaes Eringa,
  • Jamie Niks and
  • Anne Kleefstra

22 May 2021

Change has become continuous, and innovation is a primary approach for hospitality, i.e., hotel companies, to become or remain economically viable and sustainable. An increasing number of management researchers are paying more attention to workplace...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,358 Views
18 Pages

Industry Performance Appraisal Using Improved MCDM for Next Generation of Taiwan

  • Zon-Yau Lee,
  • Mei-Tai Chu,
  • Yu-Ting Wang and
  • Kuan-Ju Chen

30 June 2020

It is critical for manufacturing sectors to improve maximum performance to foster a competitive advantage. This article aims to analyze how the manufacturing industry can promote its performance to achieve sustainable development. We embark performan...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,348 Views
21 Pages

19 December 2024

The innovation ecosystem can greatly enhance enterprises’ innovation performance. However, little is known about how the industrial innovation ecosystem (IIE) improves innovation ability within the equipment manufacturing industry (EMI). The fs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,994 Views
11 Pages

Environmental management, which was recognized as a functional part of corporate management, has recently been recognized as a strategic element of all business activities. It can be defined as a series of management activities to improve environment...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Environmental, Social, Governance and Financial Performance of SME Firms)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,891 Views
21 Pages

This paper analyzes the environmental performance, spatial and temporal characteristics, and optimization paths of key polluting industries, represented here by the power industry, using the super-efficient MinDS model. The study shows that the envir...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ecosystem Quality and Stability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,044 Views
12 Pages

Firm-Level Carbon Productivity, Home Country Environmental Performance, and Firm Performance in the Exporting Meat Industry

  • Valeska V. Geldres-Weiss,
  • Pedro E. Guerrero-Stuardo,
  • Svetla Marinova,
  • Vesnia Ortiz-Cea and
  • Roberto Reveco

11 June 2025

This study explores the relationship between firm-level carbon productivity (CRP), home country environmental performance (HCEP), and firm performance—both financial and international—in the global meat exporting industry. While prior res...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Studies in Economic Growth, Environment and Sustainability—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,014 Views
18 Pages

28 July 2024

With the ongoing advancements in the modern industrial economy, the global ecological environment is encountering a multitude of challenges, prompting the increasing dissemination and global acknowledgment of the concept of sustainable development. G...

  • Article
  • Open Access

29 December 2023

Sanitary napkins are indispensable personal care products for women. China is the largest market for feminine hygiene products in the world. China’s sanitary napkin industry is also large and stable, with annual sales reaching billions. However, desp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,706 Views
13 Pages

Sustainability Performance in Food Supply Networks: Insights from the UK Industry

  • Naoum Tsolakis,
  • Foivos Anastasiadis and
  • Jagjit Singh Srai

3 September 2018

The purpose of this research is to introduce a qualitative sustainability performance assessment framework for food supply networks, based on the perception of their key stakeholders’ upper management. Moreover, the paper provides industry insi...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Sustainability and Applications)
  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,217 Views
41 Pages

12 April 2025

The steel industry is a hard-to-abate sector; it involves many energy-intensive and complex processes. Continuous performance improvement is a fundamental requirement. Efficiency enhancement of the involved sub-processes can serve as the basis of an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Decarbonization and Sustainability in Industrial and Tertiary Sectors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
16,953 Views
20 Pages

Review of Key Performance Indicators for Process Monitoring in the Mining Industry

  • Paulina Gackowiec,
  • Marta Podobińska-Staniec,
  • Edyta Brzychczy,
  • Christopher Kühlbach and
  • Toyga Özver

4 October 2020

The sustainable development of an organisation requires a holistic approach to the evaluation of an enterprise’s goals and activities. The essential means enabling an organisation to achieve goals are business processes. Properly managed, busin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Integrated Approaches for Enterprise Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
444 Citations
45,582 Views
24 Pages

Industry 4.0: A Solution towards Technology Challenges of Sustainable Business Performance

  • Muhammad Haseeb,
  • Hafezali Iqbal Hussain,
  • Beata Ślusarczyk and
  • Kittisak Jermsittiparsert

Technology adoption is always a difficult task for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) due to lack of resources and other market issues. Many technology challenges adversely affect the sustainable business performance of SMEs. However, the inco...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Industry 4.0 Implication for Economy and Society)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
10,120 Views
21 Pages

8 January 2025

With the strategic background of accelerating the transformation of the low-carbon economy in China, how to better help the new energy automobile industry realize green and high-quality development under the goal of “dual-carbon” with the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Low Carbon Energy and Sustainability—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,268 Views
19 Pages

This study focuses on the mediation channels through which the financial performance of intelligent manufacturing industries closely related to the Fourth Industrial Revolution has been affected. Along with compiling a massive volume of datasets publ...

  • Review
  • Open Access
143 Citations
27,488 Views
25 Pages

Performance Measurement System and Quality Management in Data-Driven Industry 4.0: A Review

  • Parkash Tambare,
  • Chandrashekhar Meshram,
  • Cheng-Chi Lee,
  • Rakesh Jagdish Ramteke and
  • Agbotiname Lucky Imoize

29 December 2021

The birth of mass production started in the early 1900s. The manufacturing industries were transformed from mechanization to digitalization with the help of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Now, the advancement of ICT and the Internet...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Performance, Simulation and Modelling of Sensors Networks in the Context of IoT, Edge Computing, and AI)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,910 Views
15 Pages

11 December 2021

In recent years, the concepts of human resource management (HRM) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) have gained significant focus across industries. The role and implications of CSR are vital for organizational success; similarly, HRM plays a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Management and Innovation for Environmental Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
10,867 Views
20 Pages

Effects of Foreign Trade on the Economic Performance of Industries—Evidence from Wood Processing Industry of Czechia and Slovakia

  • Andrea Sujová,
  • Ľubica Simanová,
  • Václav Kupčák,
  • Jarmila Schmidtová and
  • Adriana Lukáčiková

16 November 2021

As was first stressed by the classical economists Adam Smith and David Ricardo, international trade plays a crucial role in the growth process. The paper aims to analyze the influence of foreign trade on economic performance in the wood processing in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
513 Views
25 Pages

CEO Characteristics, Industry 4.0 Capability Disclosure, and Firm Performance

  • Vidya Ganji,
  • Sridhar Nerur,
  • Mahmut Yasar,
  • Edmund Prater and ,
  • Kay-Yut Chen and
  • Gajanan Ganji
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

8 September 2026

Industry 4.0 (I4.0) garnered significant attention from academics and practitioners in the last decade. However, there is a lack of a measure in the extant literature that evaluates I4.0 and digital transformation capability disclosure of companies....

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,723 Views
31 Pages

8 December 2025

Europe’s technological and sustainable transition will be possible, even and especially if the electronics industry adapts its production standards. This industry could become a testing ground because it raises serious environmental and social...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Technologies Toward Sustainable Eco-Friendly Industry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,435 Views
19 Pages

Corporate Performance, Market-Industry Competition and Enterprise Environmental-Protection Investment

  • Liu Yang,
  • Junting Tan,
  • Weiyi Xia,
  • Zhaomei Chi and ,
  • Han Qin,
  • Quanxin Gan and
  • Qin Yang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Worldwide, many countries regard green as a keyword related to development, and investments into environmental protection are an important way for enterprises to achieve green development. Therefore, clarifying which factors influence enterprises to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Circular Economy and Sustainable Business Performance Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
57 Citations
8,225 Views
17 Pages

30 October 2020

Due to limited resources, the implementation of Industry 4.0 solutions is a big challenge in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Therefore, it is important to identify the factors that facilitate such implementation. However, empirical resear...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Society 5.0 and Industry 4.0 Relations and Implications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,319 Views
13 Pages

13 November 2024

This study examines the determinants of the financial performance of the Portuguese hotel industry. Despite the economic relevance of the hotel industry and financial performance as an indicator of business survival, academic research on the factors...

(This article belongs to the Section Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, and Financial Markets)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,374 Views
25 Pages

21 August 2020

Organizations have been trying to increase their efficiency and improve their performance in order to achieve their goals. Various factors determine organizational success. The construction industry is a project-based industry which is exceptionally...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fuzzy Hybrid Systems for Construction Engineering and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
17,860 Views
21 Pages

22 March 2017

The impressive growth of the Vietnam textile and apparel industry has led to some concerns due to its insufficient value chain and fierce competition within the industry. Thus, performance evaluation is significant issue to estimate the values of com...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability Issues in the Textile and Apparel Supply Chains)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
8,650 Views
24 Pages

17 November 2020

This study measures the unified (i.e., operational and environmental) performance of semiconductor firms in the world by using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) environmental assessment. With its promising and expanding electronic applications, many in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Challenges in Energy and Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
70 Citations
47,596 Views
21 Pages

Relationship between Job Satisfaction and Employee Performance in the Construction Industry of Pakistan

  • Aftab Hameed Memon,
  • Shabir Hussain Khahro,
  • Nafees Ahmed Memon,
  • Zubair Ahmed Memon and
  • Ahmed Mustafa

27 May 2023

Organizations focus on human resources to improve performance as a result of high global competition and a dynamic business environment. In today’s competitive environment, employee performance and job satisfaction are critical to the achieveme...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Construction Management Practices and Productivity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
879 Views
14 Pages

This study examines how Industry 4.0 technology (I4T) impacts supply chain resilience (SCR) and employee-centered social performance (ESP) in hotels. It also explores SCR’s mediating effect and how hotel managers’ I4T knowledge moderates...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Next-Generation Tourism, Hospitality, and Leisure: Digital, Ethical, and Human Dimensions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
7,955 Views
21 Pages

30 June 2022

Green innovation, which combines “innovation-driven” and “green development,” is one of the most powerful ways to overcome resource and environmental constraints and enhance manufacturing industry sustainability. Based on the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Green Development of Industries and Sustainable Use of Resources in the Industrial Sector)
  • Article
  • Open Access
433 Views
28 Pages

8 September 2026

We examine whether digital industry cluster policy is associated with corporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance. We study digital industry clusters within China’s Innovative Industrial Cluster program, a spatial industri...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
11,907 Views
16 Pages

Investigating the Determinants of Employee Performance for Sustainability: A Study on the Bangladesh Insurance Industry

  • Sadia Afrin,
  • Muhammad Asyraf Bin Mohd Kassim,
  • Mohd Faizal Yusof,
  • Md. Sharif Hassan and ,
  • Md. Aminul Islam and
  • Khairun Nisa Binti Khairuddin
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

24 March 2023

Employee performance is the secret to success for every company. Companies want their employees to understand the company’s vision and objectives and meet the individual goals set by the managers. The insurance industry in Bangladesh has stagna...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
8,721 Views
18 Pages

The global business scenario seems to be gloomy due to the economic uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted many economic sectors and a country’s national GNP, including the tourism industry. The question...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Financing Sport and Leisure: Contemporary Issues and Prospects)
  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
10,390 Views
16 Pages

Impacts of FDI Renewable Energy Technology Spillover on China’s Energy Industry Performance

  • Weiwei Liu,
  • Xiandong Xu,
  • Zhile Yang,
  • Jianyu Zhao and
  • Jing Xing

29 August 2016

Environmental friendly renewable energy plays an indispensable role in energy industry development. Foreign direct investment (FDI) in advanced renewable energy technology spillover is promising to improve technological capability and promote China’s...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,922 Views
15 Pages

Developing a Sustainability Measurement for Innovation Performance for the Food Industry

  • Fontip Leesatapornwongsa,
  • Natcha Thawesaengskulthai and
  • Ronnakorn Vaiyavuth

11 December 2023

While the significance of innovation management in sustaining competitiveness for businesses is widely recognized, there is an absence of research in the food industry regarding the measurement of sustainability outcomes resulting from innovation eff...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,118 Views
31 Pages

23 November 2025

The energy transition in the aluminium industry is crucial, as its processes are among the most energy-intensive. In this context, KPIs (Key Performance Indicators), defined as quantitative measures for assessing the effectiveness and efficiency of p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,273 Views
21 Pages

Hybrid Approach to Corporate Sustainability Performance in Indonesia’s Cement Industry

  • Ching-Hsin Wang,
  • Yi-Chun Chen,
  • Jovi Sulistiawan,
  • Tat-Dat Bui and
  • Ming-Lang Tseng

20 December 2021

This study aimed to create a solid framework for decision-making in Indonesia’s cement industry, emphasizing those factors which bring about the most impactful results. The framework was developed using the fuzzy Delphi method, the fuzzy decisi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,607 Views
11 Pages

4 July 2022

In recent years, efficient processes have become increasingly important because of high-level competition in the production industry. The concept of Industry 4.0 is a relatively new and effective method for managing production processes. Because the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Soft Computing with Applications to Decision Making and Data Mining)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,437 Views
16 Pages

The Impact of Industry Clusters on the Performance of High Technology Small and Middle Size Enterprises

  • Tong Tong,
  • Norzalina Binti Zainudin,
  • Jingwen Yan and
  • Azmawani Abd Rahman

9 June 2023

Based on the theory of independent innovation and competitive advantage, this paper takes industry cluster as the independent variable, long-term high-technology small and middle size enterprises (high-tech SMEs) performance and short-term high-tech...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,542 Views
13 Pages

5 September 2024

Responsible innovation is attracting theoretical and practical research attention worldwide due to global climatic changes, severe resource shortages and intensifying environmental deterioration. However, there are still no studies concerning the per...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Marine Bearing Capacity and Economic Growth)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,964 Views
13 Pages

29 July 2023

This study proposed a fresh measure of the competition index in the Indonesian manufacturing industry during the period of 1990–2015. The competition index was estimated using indicators in the dimensions of the structure–conduct–pe...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,664 Views
15 Pages

The Effect of Business Technology Strategy on Inward Export Performance in the Malaysian Higher Education Industry

  • Panteha Khodakarami,
  • Zukarnain Zakaria,
  • Rossilah Jamil,
  • Tan Seng Teck and ,
  • Hayder Dhahir Mohammed and
  • Mehran Najmaei
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

29 July 2022

Services export plays a significant role in the world economy and benefits businesses and countries. In the service sector, higher education service has become vital for countries’ economic sustainability. The flux of international students has...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
73 Citations
11,706 Views
20 Pages

13 October 2021

Plastic and petrochemical industries are lagging behind in terms of environmental sustainability performance because of the nature of these industries. Although plastic and petrochemical industries have adopted lean manufacturing and/or Industry 4.0...

(This article belongs to the Section Waste and Recycling)

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