Big IFs in Productivity-Enhancing Industry 4.0

Kovács, Olivér

doi:10.3390/socsci8020037

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“…When it comes to drivers and barriers affecting implementation, this question has received some attention in recent contributions about I4.0 in SMEs (Stentoft et al 2001;Türkes , et al 2019;Vrchota et al 2019). Related to this, researchers recognize that there is range of managerial and organizational challenges (Agostini and Filippini 2019) and inertia forces (Kovacs 2019) which can make it difficult to succeed with the adoption and implementation of I4.0. Sony and Naik (2019) argue that most organizations lack a detailed understanding of the I4.0 concept, which perhaps is not surprising in light of the review in Section 3 of this paper which showed that there is a large number of definitions of the concept in the literature (Moeuf et al 2018).…”

Section: Adoption and Implementationmentioning

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The Emergence and Rise of Industry 4.0 Viewed through the Lens of Management Fashion Theory

Madsen

2019

Administrative Sciences

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The Industry 4.0 (I4.0) concept is concerned with the fourth industrial revolution in manufacturing, in which technological trends such as digitalization, automation and artificial intelligence are transforming production processes. Since the concept’s introduction at the Hannover Fair in Germany in 2011, I4.0 has enjoyed a meteoric rise in popularity and is currently high on the agenda of governments, politicians and business elites. In light of these observations, some commentators have asked the question of whether I4.0 is a concept that is hyped up and possibly just the latest in a long line of fashionable management concepts introduced over the course of the last few decades. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to provide a critical outside-in look at the emergence and rise of I4.0. Theoretically, these processes are viewed through the lens of management fashion, a theoretical perspective well suited to examinations of evolutionary trajectories of management concepts and ideas. The findings indicate that the I4.0 concept has quickly become highly popular and is dominating much of the popular management discourse. The concept has migrated out of the specialized manufacturing discourse to become a more general concept with mainstream appeal and applicability, evidenced by a multitude of neologisms such as Work 4.0 and Innovation 4.0. The numbers 4.0 have spread in a meme-like fashion, evidenced by the fact that the combination of a noun and the numbers 4.0 are used to signal and usher in discussions about the future of business and society. While there is much evidence that clearly shows that the concept has had a wide-ranging impact at the discursive level, the currently available research is less clear about what impact the concept has had so far on industries and organizations worldwide.

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Section: Adoption and Implementationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Emergence and Rise of Industry 4.0 Viewed through the Lens of Management Fashion Theory

Madsen

2019

Administrative Sciences

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“…42 Bénassy-Quéré et al (2019) gave a very good account on the disappointing reform will regarding the Eurozone. 43 See Kirman (2010) or for a more detailed discussion on complexity economics, see Kovács (2019 -forthcoming).…”

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“…9 The backlash against globalisation that is to say the ailing trust infrastructure is due to the interplay among intertwined wicked challenges. Since a more comprehensive account was given to these complex challenges elsewhere (Kovács 2019), we just mention them: climate change; demographic challenges (i.e. not only the issue of aging population as well as migration crisis, but also the runaway of income and wealth inequalities are of key importance in creating serious instabilities 10 ); the runaway of the financial sector at the expense of the real economy (i.e.…”

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The Hungarian eurology – the road to perdition?

Kovács

2020

Post-Communist Economies

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The study aims at deciphering the driving forces behind the Hungarian eurolessness from a more complexity-aware perspective. To this end, it applies the concept of runaway phenomena, borrowed from complexity science pervaded by an evolutionary view to the socioeconomic innovation ecosystem, in interpreting the runaway Hungarian nationalism. It demonstrates that global runaway phenomena in the world economy have been heavily influencing the Hungarian path. With this approach, it becomes clearer how Hungary turned from eulogy to neutrality, and then has gone even beyond in terms of Europeanisation. The paper also conveys some lessons both for economics theory and economic governance alike.

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“…The sustainable supply chain, and simultaneously 4.0, can be defined as the supply chain that uses Industry 4.0 tools in order to close the material and energy cycles, besides helping the information flow and the activities, turning the operations more efficient, more intelligent, more precise, and quicker. Kovacs [22] reinforces the educational aspects for human resource development, creating skills, and the knowledge to deal with the digital economy. These educational aspects promote the fourth industrial revolution changes on the productions and on the organizations [23].…”

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The Healthcare Sustainable Supply Chain 4.0: The Circular Economy Transition Conceptual Framework with the Corporate Social Responsibility Mirror

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Concern regarding the circular economy and Industry 4.0 is starting to increase in the emerging countries. This research study aims to analyze the healthcare sustainable supply chain 4.0 by proposing the circular economy transition conceptual framework with the corporate social responsibility mirror. The authors developed an observation guideline to collect empirical data from a private healthcare institution located in Rio de Janeiro, which has been promoting investment in new technologies within its operations. The research observation is between January and April 2017. The results show the glass structure can be a channel that provides the lightning resources, the solar energy with the photovoltaic panels, and the water management. The corporate social responsibility links the social role in healthcare institutions with sustainable practices and it improves smart technologies. The applicability of the internet of things and the internet of services adds value to sustainable practices. The circular economy transition conceptual framework integrates the result analyses. The research concludes that the union among the triple bottom line, Industry 4.0, and the corporate social responsibility allows the transition from the linear model to the circular model and can improve the sustainable healthcare supply chain 4.0.

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Big IFs in Productivity-Enhancing Industry 4.0

Cited by 10 publications

References 44 publications

The Emergence and Rise of Industry 4.0 Viewed through the Lens of Management Fashion Theory

The Emergence and Rise of Industry 4.0 Viewed through the Lens of Management Fashion Theory

The Hungarian eurology – the road to perdition?

The Healthcare Sustainable Supply Chain 4.0: The Circular Economy Transition Conceptual Framework with the Corporate Social Responsibility Mirror

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