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Sustainability in the food sector: a bibliometric and network analysis of the literature
No full textThe issue of sustainability in the food sector is gaining increasing interest. Although this issue is of considerable interest to researchers and practitioners, to our knowledge there is not yet a literature review which illustrates the areas of greatest interest. The aim of this paper is to explore the status of sustainability research in the food sector, identifying the most discussed research fronts. The methodology adopted to carry out this literature review is network analysis through bibliometric tools, which are very effective in identifying current and new issues of interest. Starting from a sample of 601 articles, through the use of bibliometric tools four major clusters of research are identified: food waste management, environmental impact, models for sustainable supply chain design and consumers' behaviour towards food sustainability. These results can help researchers and practitioners to understand trendsetting topics, to detect potential research gaps and to outline future research avenues
A review of the literature on innovation in the agrofood industry: sustainability, smartness and health
No full textPurpose: Following the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development, the main challenge for the agrofood sector is to innovate food production, offering sustainable, smart and safe solutions. The future of food production will be oriented more and more towards sustainable industries with high technological content to guarantee food safety and food security. It implies that a change not only in the way food is conceived, but also in the way it is produced, processed and consumed is needed. The aim of the present study is to investigate the role of innovation, sustainability, smartness and health within the agrofood industry. Design/methodology/approach: A literature review was conducted using 596 academic documents written in English language and published in peer-reviewed scientific journals as well as in conference proceedings. The relevant articles were analyzed using both a bibliometric and a systematic approach. Findings: The results confirm the role of innovation and sustainability as key drivers in the food industry. The main findings concern the benefits deriving from the adoption of digital technologies, the ever-increasing involvement of consumers in health and environmental issues and the introduction of the open innovation concept in the agrofood industry. Originality/value: This study jointly considers the dimensions of innovation, sustainability, smartness and health in the agrofood sector, demonstrating how they are strongly interdependent
A study on IoT application in the Food Industry using Keywords Analysis
No full textThe Internet of Things is an interconnected system of computing devices, both mechanical and digital, that uses sensors applied to machines, animals and people to create unprecedented amounts of important and detailed data about systems in order to improve them. From a supply chain management perspective, the Internet of Things can enable machines to undertake the decision making process with little or no human intervention through autonomous coordination between "things" as they are transported between different entities in the supply chain. In particular, the concept of the Internet of Things (IoT) enables visualization of supply chain operational processes, information gathering, and control of business development in real time. As far as the food industry is concerned, IoT helps to maintain safety standards, limit food waste, manage unpredictable variations, track and monitor the quality of foodstuffs. The solutions proposed by IoT are expected to not only influence the way food is produced, but also to assess social, environmental, and economic concerns. For this reason, IoT systems applied to the food industry are widely investigated in the extant literature. This article aims to identify and organize the main research topics regarding the development of IoT systems in the food sector, through a keyword analysis. The methodology adopted allows to identify the concepts that persist over time, those that emerge with high frequency and those that, instead, have disappeared over the years. The results allow us to make predictions about topics of future interest to researchers, outlining avenues for promising research
Cinema e scritture femminili. Letterate italiane fra la pagina e lo schermo
No full textIl volume, frutto di un progetto di ricerca promosso dalle curatrici, propone una prima mappatura del lavoro delle letterate italiane nella scrittura per il cinema, offrendo una panoramica che va dagli anni del muto al presente
The opportunistic newsvendor problem: Defining the optimal purchase quantity of resalable items, whose value may appreciate
No full textWith Newsvendor Problem (NvP) we refer to a specific class of inventory management problems, valid for a single item with stochastic demand over a single period. In the standard version, the newsvendor is allowed to issue a single order, before he or she can observe the actual demand. Since the newsvendor can face both overage and underage costs, due to lost sales or residual stock, the objective is to define the optimal order size that maximizes the expected profit. In this paper, we consider a specific version of the NvP, in which the buyer has the opportunity to make a last and single order for opportunistic reasons. Specifically, we consider discontinued, collectible items, for which demand will not vanish and whose value might appreciate. Hence, the objective is to define the optimal quantity that should be purchased, just before the item is retired from the market or sold-out, and that should be sold as soon as the price rises over a predefined target level. An optimal solution, maximizing the expected profit, is obtained both in case of negligible and non-negligible stockholding costs. In the latter case, to obtain the optimal solution in implicit form, some simplifying assumptions are needed. Hence, a thorough numerical analysis is finally performed, as a way to empirically demonstrate both the robustness and the accuracy of the model, in several scenarios differentiated in terms of costs and customers’ demand
Environmentally-conscious behaviours in the circular economy. An analysis of consumers' green purchase intentions for refurbished smartphones
Full text linkThe management of waste from electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) is a hot issue for both the scientific community and practitioners. Among the strategies that lead a system to circularity, that of reconditioning (or refurbishing) appears to be very suitable and profitable for WEEE management. According to it, this paper aims to contribute to the existing literature on consumer behavior and Circular Economy by studying what determines the green purchase intention of a refurbished smartphone. By applying a Discriminant Analysis it was found that psychological factors, such as green perceived value and environmental knowledge, are the most powerful predictors of green purchase intention of refurbished smartphones, while social and emotional ones, i.e. collectivism, subjective norms and environmental concern, do not influence it. Our results can be useful to both remanufacturers and retailers of refurbished products to identify more effective marketing strategies, as well as to policymakers to define specific measures and policies able to improve the environmental concern of the end consumers
Industry 4.0 and Open Innovation: Evidence from a case study
No full textThe interest towards Industry 4.0 is growing since its inception. Its introduction has many impacts on the whole supply chain and requires companies to rethink the way they design and manage their supply chain. In particular, companies usually are not able to develop innovation by exclusively relying only on their internal resources. As a consequence, firms are increasingly collaborating with external stakeholders (i.e., suppliers, manufacturers and customers). This led to state that companies are more and more adopting an open innovation model. The objective of this paper is to investigate the topic of Industry 4.0 under an Open innovation lens. Specifically, based on a systematic literature review conducted on 50 papers, three thematic areas have been identified namely, innovation, smartness, sustainability. These trends have been confirmed by means of a multiple case study, involving three companies operating within the Italian food supply chain. The paper also provides suggestions for future research related to the fields
Investigating circular business model innovation through keywords analysis
Full text linkOngoing economic, social and environmental developments have forced the production system to undertake a profound transformation, shifting from a linear to a circular model. The transformation towards a circular economy poses significant challenges for established companies, in many cases requiring a strong modification of their current business models, start-ups and new ventures. Firms need to completely rethink their value proposition, modifying how the product or service is produced, delivered to the customers and disposed of. As a result, interest in business model innovation with a view to a circular system has increased significantly over the last five years, leading to a flourishing literature production. Although several literature reviews have been published on the topic of the circular business model, few of them include the innovation dimension. Moreover, the time horizon covered by the previous reviews extends to 2019 and in one case to 2020. Since 2020 saw a 135% increase in scientific production compared to the previous year, it is necessary to update the prior works, taking into account the new contributions. Our paper aims to bridge this gap by proposing a literature review based on keywords analysis. In this way, it is possible to analyze the issues addressed in the circular business model innovation (CMBI) by categorizing them as core, emerging/phantom, trendy or intermittent. This analysis is particularly suitable for identifying future research directions as signaled by the emerging themes
Sustainability and Open Innovation: Main Themes and Research Trajectories
Full text linkToday, innovation and sustainability in their broadest sense, which includes people (social dimension), the planet (environmental dimension) and profits (economic dimension), are increasingly intertwined. Integrating the sustainability dimension into the innovation of products, services, processes, technologies, business and organizational models requires an effort on the part of the company as it demands a different set of knowledge and skills than those needed to innovate in a traditional way. As a result, companies, in order to integrate the dimension of sustainability in their innovation processes, have felt the need to exploit knowledge, skills and technologies external to the organization itself, promoting what is called the process of open innovation. Since this field of field is only recently being explored, we conducted a literature review through bibliometric analysis on a sample of 93 scientific articles published between 2011 and today, April 2022. To achieve the purpose of this review, both quantitative (co-occurrence analysis) and qualitative analysis have been conducted. Four different research themes have been identified: sustainable open innovation and innovation performance, the role of technological capability for sustainable open innovation, business model perspective and sustainable open innovation and university collaboration. As far as future research is concerned, a mainline has been identified concerning the study of sustainable open innovation in the agri-food industry
The influence of open innovation on firm performance
Full text linkInnovation is crucial for growth and business development, and represents a reliable way through which to gain competitiveness within the marketplace. Open innovation is expressed through three different processes: the acquisition of external technology (inbound innovation); the external exploitation of technology (outbound innovation); and coupled innovation. Based on a comprehensive and systematic review of the literature best able to detect the main thematic areas of the research topic, the aim of this paper is to investigate how the paradigm of open innovation influences firm performance and to provide suggestions for future research avenues
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