Organizational learning and Industry 4.0: findings from a systematic literature review and research agenda

Abstract

<jats:sec><jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Purpose</jats:title><jats:p>Industry 4.0 has been one of the most topics of interest by researches and practitioners in recent years. Then, researches which bring new insights related to the subjects linked to the Industry 4.0 become relevant to support Industry 4.0's initiatives as well as for the deployment of new research works. Considering “organizational learning” as one of the most crucial subjects in this new context, this article aims to identify dimensions present in the literature regarding the relation between organizational learning and Industry 4.0 seeking to clarify how learning can be understood into the context of the fourth industrial revolution. In addition, future research directions are presented as well.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Design/methodology/approach</jats:title><jats:p>This study is based on a systematic literature review that covers Industry 4.0 and organizational learning based on publications made from 2012, when the topic of Industry 4.0 was coined in Germany, using data basis Web of Science and Google Scholar. Also, NVivo software was used in order to identify keywords and the respective dimensions and constructs found out on this research.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Findings</jats:title><jats:p>Nine dimensions were identified between organizational learning and Industry 4.0. These include management, Industry 4.0, general industry, technology, sustainability, application, interaction between industry and the academia, education and training and competency and skills. These dimensions may be viewed in three main constructs which are essentially in order to understand and manage learning in Industry 4.0's programs. They are: learning development, Industry 4.0 structure and technology Adoption.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Research limitations/implications</jats:title><jats:p>Even though there are relatively few publications that have studied the relationship between organizational learning and Industry 4.0, this article makes a material contribution to both the theory in relation to Industry 4.0 and the theory of learning - for its unprecedented nature, introducing the dimensions comprising this relation as well as possible future research directions encouraging empirical researches.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Practical implications</jats:title><jats:p>This article identifies the thematic dimensions relative to Industry 4.0 and organizational learning. The understanding of this relation has a relevant contribution to professionals acting in the field of organizational learning and Industry 4.0 in the sense of affording an adequate deployment of these elements by organizations.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Originality/value</jats:title><jats:p>This article is unique for filling a gap in the academic literature in terms of understanding the relation between organizational learning and Industry 4.0. The article also provides future research directions on learning within the context of Industry 4.0.</jats:p></jats:sec>

Infometria nas Bases Web of Science e Scopus: Governança Corporativa, Informação e Tecnologia da Informação; Precificação de Ações e Riscos de Mercado

“…Para lidar com o grande volume de informações, obtidas por meio de buscas em bases de dados científicas, é preciso fazer uso de métodos que permitam construir um maior entendimento e extrair conclusões sobre o conjunto de resultados analisado. Tanto a Bibliometria como a Revisão Sistêmica são ferramentas adequadas para este fim (Sampaio;Mancini, 2007;Bruna Júnior;Ensslin, 2012;Bach et al, 2019;Belinski et al, 2020& Estevão, 2020.…”

“…O estudo realizado pelos autores Belinski et al (2020) foi também baseado em uma revisão sistemática da literatura o qual focou na Indústria 4.0 e aprendizado organizacional com base em publicações feitas a partir de 2012, quando o tópico Indústria 4.0 foi cunhado na Alemanha, usando o banco de dados Web of Science e Google Scholar. Além disso, o software NVivo foi usado para identificar palavras-chave e as respectivas dimensões e construções encontradas na pesquisa de Belinski et al, (2020); assim neste estudo aprofundou-se um pouco mais utilizando os softwares VOSViewer e NVivo, para efetuar análise quantitativa e qualitativa.…”

“…As palavras-chave que serão utilizadas na busca de referências estão baseadas na determinação da área do conhecimentofoco da presente pesquisa (Weins et al, 2018). O intuito é mensurar a produção e disseminação científica, a exemplo de autores que recorreram a técnicas bibliométricas (Araújo, 2006;Ensslin et al, 2014;Weins et al, 2018, Belinski et al, 2020& Estevão, 2020. Os procedimentos adotados na proposta metodológica utilizada conforme já evidenciado no Quadro 2, totalizando, por fim, a seleção de 307 artigos.…”

“…Conforme mencionam Belinski et al (2020), é possível identificar as principais áreas que precisam ser consideradas para entender e efetivamente gerenciar o aprendizado, apoiando seu estabelecimento estratégico. Por meio da bibliometria e revisão sistemática da literatura, pode-se aplicar métodos estatísticos e matemáticos para analisar e construir indicadores sobre a dinâmica e evolução da informação científica e tecnológica de determinadas disciplinas, áreas, organizações ou países (Belinski et al, 2020;Estevão, 2020;Alexopoulou;Batsou, & Drigas, 2021).…”

Towards a Supply Chain 4.0 on the post-COVID-19 pandemic: a conceptual and strategic discussion for more resilient supply chains

“…The topic of Industry 4.0 has also been broadly discussing by researchers who have been proposed theoretical and practical insights from different subjects related to the Industry 4.0 context. Included on these, are topics such as organizational structure (Wilkesmann and Wilkesmann, 2018;Belinski et al, 2020), sustainability (Kamble et al, 2018;Jabbour et al, 2018), lean manufacturing (Sanders et al, 2016;Mrugalska and Wyrwicka, 2017), small and medium enterprises (Moeuf et al, 2017), strategic management (Lin et al, 2018) and performance measurement (Frederico et al, 2020).…”