Driving forces for industry 4.0 readiness, sustainable manufacturing practices and circular economy capabilities: does firm size matter?

Ali, Kashif; Johl, Satirenjit Kaur

doi:10.1108/jmtm-07-2022-0254

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“…This requires new retail enterprises to scientifically analyse consumers' consumable content and implementation process and improve the matching degree of system and user needs. Furthermore, the current study also found that all mediated paths were supported , 2023b).…”

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confidence: 74%

Enhancing Consumer Value Co-Creation Through Social Commerce Features in China’s Retail Industry

Amin

et al. 2023

IJIKM

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Aim/Purpose: Based on the stimulus-organism-response (SOR) model, the current study investigated social commerce functions as an innovative retailing technological support by selecting the three most appropriate features for the Chinese online shopping environment with respective value co-creation intentions. Background: Social commerce is the customers’ online shopping touchpoint in the latest retail era, which serves as a corporate technological tool to extend specific customer services. Although social commerce is a relatively novel platform, limited theoretical attention was provided to determine retailers’ approaches in employing relevant functions to improve consumer experience and value co-creation. Methodology: A questionnaire was distributed to Chinese customers, with 408 valid questionnaires being returned and analyzed through Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). Contribution: The current study investigated the new retail concept and value co-creation from the consumer’s perspective by developing a theoretical model encompassing new retail traits and consumer value, which contributed to an alternative theoretical understanding of value creation, marketing, and consumer behaviour in the new retail business model. Findings: The results demonstrated that value co-creation intention was determined by customer experience, hedonic experience, and trust. Simultaneously, the three factors were significantly influenced by interactivity, personalisation, and sociability features. Specifically, customers’ perceptions of the new retail idea and the consumer co-creation value were examined. Resultantly, this study constructed a model bridging new retail characteristics with consumer value. Recommendations for Practitioners: Nonetheless, past new retail management practice studies mainly focused on superficial happiness in the process of human-computer interaction, which engendered a computer system design solely satisfying consumers’ sensory stimulation and experience while neglecting consumers’ hidden value demands. As such, a shift from the subjective perspective to the realisation perspective is required to express and further understand the actual meaning and depth of consumer happiness. Recommendation for Researchers: New retailers could incorporate social characteristics on social commerce platforms to improve the effectiveness of marketing strategies while increasing user trust to generate higher profitability. Impact on Society: The new retail enterprises should prioritise consumers’ acquisition of happiness meaning and deep experience through self-realisation, cognitive improvement, identity identification, and other aspects of consumer experiences and purchase processes. By accurately revealing and matching consumers’ fundamental perspectives, new retailers could continuously satisfy consumer requirements in optimally obtaining happiness. Future Research: Future comparative studies could be conducted on diverse companies within the same industry for comprehensive findings. Moreover, other underlying factors with significant influences, such as social convenience, group cognitive ability, individual family environment, and other external stimuli were not included in the present study examinations.

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Enhancing Consumer Value Co-Creation Through Social Commerce Features in China’s Retail Industry

Amin

et al. 2023

IJIKM

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“…Meanwhile, Nor-Aishah et al (2020) and Hanaysha et al (2022) measured the sustainable performance of SMEs in a holistic manner, which consisted of three aspects known as economic, environmental and social sustainability. In some other previous studies, researchers focused on the adoption of "lean and green thinking" in achieving efficiency in production and reducing waste (Caldera et al, 2019), implementation of "lean thinking" in directing business firms towards sustainability practices (Franco & Rodrigues, 2021), application of "lean-green operations" in new product development for efficiency (Oliveira et al, 2022), green manufacturing practices and green innovation for corporate sustainable performance (Al-Hakimi et al, 2022), sustainable product and process design, sustainable waste disposal management, sustainable human resource management and local community development (Mitra, 2023) and, performing sustainable manufacturing practices which focused on using economically-sound processes to reduce negative environmental impacts in products production (Ali & Johl, 2023). It could be said that although many organizations have adopted sustainable practices, there remains no uniformed reporting standard and measurement of sustainable performance in which firms measure different things and report in different ways (Byrne, 2023;Ribeiro, 2023).…”

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Sustainable practices and their driving factors in micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs)

Koe,

Nordin,

Alias

2024

JESI

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Practising sustainability is no longer a new phenomenon in today's business world. However, many micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) face various challenges in exercising sustainable practices. In addition, the stakeholders' roles in driving their sustainable practices still remained unknown. Therefore, this study was conducted to determine sustainable practices exercised by MSMEs and the driving factors of sustainable practices. This study employed a qualitative research method in which a semi-structured interview was performed with 12 micro and small manufacturing MSMEs. The participants were selected using the purposive sampling method. Based on the interview findings, it concluded that MSMEs practised three aspects of sustainability, namely environment, social and governance, although they practised sustainability in different ways and to different extend. Regarding the driving factors of sustainable practices, it concluded that stakeholders such as government, owners and customers played a crucial role. Specifically, the government played a significant role by providing various financial and non-financial support. The owners of MSMEs were able to initiate sustainability practices by sharing their sustainable beliefs among employees. Customers could also spark sustainable practices in MSMEs due to their changed preferences towards environmentally friendly products. The implications of this study include supporting the current sustainability model, shedding light on the importance of stakeholders in driving sustainable practices, and providing new insights into developing strategies for sustainable practices.

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“…Global supply chain complexities have attracted a lot of attention recently, and they have been exacerbated by the pandemic, its economic fallout, and the recent Ukraine conflict [1]. These incidents have clearly demonstrated the vulnerability of modern supply chains, prompting a recent report from McKinsey & Company that highlighted their growing complexity and the integration of sustainability considerations [2].…”

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confidence: 99%

Blockchain-Based Security Factors on Sustainable Supply Chain Management in UK Manufacturing Firms: A Hybrid SEM-ANN Approach

Ali,

Jahankhani,

Ali

et al. 2024

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Recently, there has been a notable surge in the intricate complexities of global supply chain management (SCM), which is gaining researchers’ attention. Supply chain sustainability is put at risk by security issues in blockchain technology that affect everything from infrastructure to management. For sustainable supply chain management (SSCM), these elements are deemed crucial. To address this, the purpose of this research is to examine the impact of blockchain security factors on SSCM among United Kingdom manufacturing firms. Based on the resource-based view (RBV) theory and the Technology–Organisation–Environment (TOE) framework, the research hypotheses and framework were developed. To achieve the research objectives, a hybrid approach that combines structural equation modelling and artificial neural networks (ANNs) was adopted to perform the analysis. The research findings indicate that privacy, network, confidentiality, and managerial factors are vital to promoting SSCM. Furthermore, the ANN analysis highlights that managerial (trust management) and supplier privacy factors are the most important constructs. Unlike prior research that theoretically assumed that all relationships are linear, this has been a novel study that has successfully validated that there exists a nonlinear relationship between the RBV theory and the TOE framework. Based on the outcomes, the study’s contributions, its practical implications, and future research avenues are discussed.

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Driving forces for industry 4.0 readiness, sustainable manufacturing practices and circular economy capabilities: does firm size matter?

Cited by 25 publications

References 82 publications

Enhancing Consumer Value Co-Creation Through Social Commerce Features in China’s Retail Industry

Enhancing Consumer Value Co-Creation Through Social Commerce Features in China’s Retail Industry

Sustainable practices and their driving factors in micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs)

Blockchain-Based Security Factors on Sustainable Supply Chain Management in UK Manufacturing Firms: A Hybrid SEM-ANN Approach

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