Measuring and Managing Sustainability Performance of Production Systems and Supply Chains
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2022) | Viewed by 3991
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sustainable value chains; technology management; product management; productisation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Wasteful economy is slowly being transformed into a circular economy and sustainable value chains.
To decrease the amount of waste, or to transform waste into value-added products, we need new technologies, processes, and value chains, which profoundly shape the future of our economy and society. In this call, we focus on developing operative supply chains, the role of operational excellence, new strategic value chains, and business ecosystems, as well as productization and commercialization of novel technological solutions.
From the former, at first, one the main questions is how the economic sustainability of the value chains or the business processes should be considered in research, technology development, product development, and productization of the waste streams.
The second aspect of this call is aimed at research on how to measure and manage the sustainability performance of production systems and supply chains. From this, we could then derive measures for the design for sustainability.
Our research integrates knowledge to anticipate challenges in sustainable value chains, linking value chain analysis to engineering and feeding information to policymakers and actors in the public and private sectors. Employing our understanding of business behavior provides a strong basis for examining sustainable business model development toward circular economy for waste streams, highlighting the importance economic viability of future value chains.
Our focus areas are:
- Business ecosystems
- Sustainable business models
- Operational excellence and sustainability
- Product life cycle management
- Operative supply chain and value stream renewal
- Productization and commercialization
- Performance analysis
- Sustainability measurements
- Production systems
- Product–service systems
Prof. Dr. Harri Haapasalo
Prof. Dr. Anupama Prashar
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainable value chains
- technology management, product management
- productization sustainable operations
- operational excellence
- circular economy
- performance analysis
- sustainability measurements
- production systems
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