...Desirée H. van Dun; Pauline Weritz; Maneesh Kumar Purpose Using absorptive capacity theory, we explore the factors affecting the adoption of Industry 4.0 technology in daily operations and examine how leadership enhances absorptive capacity through social integration mechanisms (SIMs). Design...

... operations and implementation theories relating to leveraging Industry 4.0, the authors identify challenges such as integration and outdated infrastructure related to business transformation and propose actionable insights for how to operationalise these in organisations within high-performance sport...

... can Lean and Industry 4.0 be integrated, and what are the outcomes for workers from such integration? Design/methodology/approach The special issue received 64 papers that were evaluated in multiple stages until this final sample of five papers that describe different facets of the integration...

... to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Ambra Galeazzo can be contacted at: ambra.galeazzo@unipd.it Lean Industry 4.0 Internet of things Systematic problem solving People Manufacturing...

... contribute to research by offering empirical support for the cumulative nature of learning. © Emerald Publishing Limited 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Digitalization Lean Cumulative capability development Industry 4.0 Learning Daryl John Powell can...

...Emanuele Gabriel Margherita; Alessio Maria Braccini Purpose This paper uses dialectical inquiry to explore tensions that arise when adopting Industry 4.0 technologies in a lean production system and their reconciliation mechanisms. Design/methodology/approach We conducted an in-depth...

...Marcos Dieste; Guido Orzes; Giovanna Culot; Marco Sartor; Guido Nassimbeni Purpose A positive outlook on the impact of Industry 4.0 (I4.0) on sustainability prevails in the literature. However, some studies have highlighted potential areas of concern that have not yet been systematically addressed...

...Desirée H. van Dun; Maneesh Kumar The promise of Industry 4.0-type technologies to boost operational excellence has received more-and-more scholarly and practitioner attention (Calabrese et al., 2022 ; Liao et al., 2017 ; Tortorella et al., 2019). Industry 4.0 can...

...Francesco Arcidiacono; Alessandro Ancarani; Carmela Di Mauro; Florian Schupp Purpose Smart Manufacturing (SM) lies at the core of Industry 4.0. Operations management research has investigated the determinants of SM advancement but there is still limited understanding of the linkages between SM...

... the renewal of production ordinary capabilities (POCs), and that at the shop floor level, deployment of Industry 4.0 (I4.0) is influenced by lean production. Regarding the direct links between capability layers, the authors showed that PDCs and POCs have different roles in shaping shop floor PRs: PDCs...

... to enhance socially responsible operations performance (SROP). This paper develops a novel framework for exploring the adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies for improving SROP. It highlights current best-practice examples and presents future research pathways. Design/methodology/approach This viewpoint...

...Francesco Arcidiacono; Alessandro Ancarani; Carmela Di Mauro; Florian Schupp Purpose Smart Manufacturing (SM) lies at the core of Industry 4.0. Operations management research has identified several factors influencing firms’ ability to adopt SM. However, a clear understanding of capabilities...

...Henrik Saabye; Thomas Borup Kristensen; Brian Vejrum Wæhrens Purpose This paper investigates how manufacturers can develop a learning-to-learn capability for enabling Industry 4.0 adoption. Design/methodology/approach This research design is guided by our research question: How can...

... by future researchers and practitioners alike. A mid-range theory for DS and propositions for future research are developed. Manufacturing Industry 4.0 Digital transformation Digital servitization Multilevel theory Since the late 1980s, companies have been described as increasingly...

... Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Industry 4.0 Digitalization maturity Strategic procurement The practice of procurement has been on a slowly evolving path yet to completely grow out of undertaking transactional, clerical and administrative tasks...

... innovation Digitization Absorptive capacity Industry 4.0 Digitization has become one of the trendiest topics in manufacturing (Feng and Shanthikumar, 2018 ; Holmström et al., 2019). It has even been suggested that digital technologies are defining a new industrial revolution (Kagermann...

...Xiaodie Pu; Alain Yee Loong Chong; Zhao Cai; Ming K. Lim; Kim Hua Tan Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand the value creation mechanisms of open-standard inter-organizational information system (OSIOS), which is a key technology to achieve Industry 4.0. Specifically, this study...

...Guilherme Luz Tortorella; Ricardo Giglio; Desirée H. van Dun Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the moderating role of Industry 4.0 technologies on the relationship between lean production (LP) and operational performance improvement within Brazil, a developing economy context...