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- Ghobakhloo, Morteza, et al.
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Industry 4.0 and SME Development : The Case of a Middle Eastern Country
- 2022. - 1
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Ingår i: Industry 4.0 in SMEs Across the Globe. - Boca Raton : CRC Press. - 9781003165880 - 9780367761905 - 9780367761912 ; , s. 177-190
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Globalization, market turbulence, and global crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic push the manufacturing industry to rush towards automation, data-centricity, and greater interconnectivity under the ongoing digital industrial transformation known as Industry 4.0. Smaller manufactures worldwide strive to keep up with the digitalization race and secure sustainable competitiveness. Fierce competition and market turbulence force Middle Eastern manufacturers to make the most of the digitalization race. The present study reports on the Industry 4.0 digital transformation and development of small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises in Iran, one of the most economically influential countries within the Middle East. Smaller manufacturers in Iran consider Industry 4.0 to improve productivity, operate in the data-driven economy, and increase business resilience. Although the implementation rate of generic digital technologies has been somewhat promising among Iranian manufacturers, the present report identifies significant barriers slowing the implementation rate of more advanced Industry 4.0 technologies such as predictive analytics and blockchain technology. Overall, Industry 4.0 transformation has provided Iranian manufacturing enterprises with meaningful opportunities and benefits. Nonetheless, smaller manufacturers cannot generally develop an all-inclusive strategic plan for navigating digitalization efforts. This issue, along with many other barriers such as resource scarcity, digitalization immaturity, and cybersecurity risks, has slowed down the digital transformation of the Iranian manufacturing industry.
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- Ghobakhloo, Morteza, et al.
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Industry 4.0 ten years on : A bibliometric and systematic review of concepts, sustainability value drivers, and success determinants
- 2021
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Ingår i: Journal of Cleaner Production. - : Elsevier. - 0959-6526 .- 1879-1786. ; 302
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- The fourth industrial revolution, known as Industry 4.0, and the underlying digital transformation, is a cutting-edge research topic across various disciplines. Industry 4.0 literature is growing exponentially, overexpanding the current understanding of the digital industrial revolution through thousands of academic publications. This unprecedented growth calls for a systematic review of the concept, scope, definition, and functionality of Industry 4.0. Such systematic review should address the existing ambiguities and deliver a clear, comprehensive, and up-to-date overview of this phenomenon, including the possible implications for sustainability. Consistently, the present study carried out a systematic literature review of related articles, published online within the Industry 4.0 discipline until November 2020. The systematic literature review identified 745 eligible articles and applied extensive qualitative and quantitative data analysis methodically. The study provides a descriptive assessment of eligible articles’ properties and offers a unified conceptualization of Industry 4.0 and the underlying building blocks. The study explains how the implications of Industry 4.0 for value creation expand beyond the manufacturing industry. The study further describes the sustainability value drivers of the fourth industrial revolution and identifies the conditions on which digital industrial transformation success lays. Overall, findings reveal that Industry 4.0 transformation could address pressing issues of sustainable development goals, particularly concerning the manufacturing-economic development. The study also draws on the findings and offers important theoretical and practical implications, highlights the existing gaps within the literature, and discusses the possible future research directions.
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- Iranmanesh, Mohammad, et al.
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Effects of supply chain transparency, alignment, adaptability, and agility on blockchain adoption in supply chain among SMEs
- 2023
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Ingår i: Computers & industrial engineering. - : Elsevier. - 0360-8352 .- 1879-0550. ; 176
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study aims to investigate the extent to which the contributions of blockchain technology to supply chain parameters influence blockchain adoption among SMEs. Drawing on contingency theory, the study investigates the moderating effect of market turbulence. The data were collected from 204 SMEs in Malaysia’s manufacturing sector and analysed using the partial least squares technique. The results showed that the intention of SMEs’ managers to adopt blockchain is influenced by the contributions of blockchain to supply chain transparency and agility. Supply chain transparency, alignment, adaptability, and agility are interrelated. Market turbulence moderates positively the association between agility and intention to adopt blockchain. This study extends the literature by decomposing the concept of relative advantages and investigating the influences of blockchain benefits on blockchain adoption. The moderating effect of market turbulence indicates that the influence of blockchain on agility is more important for SMEs operating in a turbulent environment than the SMEs in a stable market. The findings help the policymakers and blockchain vendors in developing effective plans and strategies to speed up the adoption of blockchain among SMEs. Furthermore, the results give confidence to the managers and owners of SMEs that blockchain can be a valuable competitive advantage source.
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