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Dr. Manuel E. MORALES
ERA Chair, School of Economics and Business at the Kaunas University of Technology

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Published: 11 April 2021 in Journal of Cleaner Production
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The fourth industrial revolution, known as Industry 4.0, and the underlying digital transformation, is a cutting-edge research topic across various disciplines. Industry 4.0 literature is growing exponentially, overexpanding the current understanding of the digital industrial revolution through thousands of academic publications. This unprecedented growth calls for a systematic review of the concept, scope, definition, and functionality of Industry 4.0. Such systematic review should address the existing ambiguities and deliver a clear, comprehensive, and up-to-date overview of this phenomenon, including the possible implications for sustainability. Consistently, the present study carried out a systematic literature review of related articles, published online within the Industry 4.0 discipline until November 2020. The systematic literature review identified 745 eligible articles and applied extensive qualitative and quantitative data analysis methodically. The study provides a descriptive assessment of eligible articles’ properties and offers a unified conceptualization of Industry 4.0 and the underlying building blocks. The study explains how the implications of Industry 4.0 for value creation expand beyond the manufacturing industry. The study further describes the sustainability value drivers of the fourth industrial revolution and identifies the conditions on which digital industrial transformation success lays. Overall, findings reveal that Industry 4.0 transformation could address pressing issues of sustainable development goals, particularly concerning the manufacturing-economic development. The study also draws on the findings and offers important theoretical and practical implications, highlights the existing gaps within the literature, and discusses the possible future research directions.

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Morteza Ghobakhloo; Masood Fathi; Mohammad Iranmanesh; Parisa Maroufkhani; Manuel E. Morales. Industry 4.0 Ten Years On: A Bibliometric and Systematic Review of Concepts, Sustainability Value Drivers, and Success Determinants. Journal of Cleaner Production 2021, 302, 127052 .

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Morteza Ghobakhloo, Masood Fathi, Mohammad Iranmanesh, Parisa Maroufkhani, Manuel E. Morales. Industry 4.0 Ten Years On: A Bibliometric and Systematic Review of Concepts, Sustainability Value Drivers, and Success Determinants. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2021; 302 ():127052.

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Morteza Ghobakhloo; Masood Fathi; Mohammad Iranmanesh; Parisa Maroufkhani; Manuel E. Morales. 2021. "Industry 4.0 Ten Years On: A Bibliometric and Systematic Review of Concepts, Sustainability Value Drivers, and Success Determinants." Journal of Cleaner Production 302, no. : 127052.

Journal article
Published: 24 May 2020 in Processes
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Few decades ago, the development of the industrial sector was disconnected from society’s protection. Negative effects awareness emerges from the current industrial processes through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), considering the causal implications to build up a more sustainable society. The aim of this study is to analyze the state of the art in industrial processes management to obtain positive and sustainable effects on society. Thus, a bibliometric analysis of 1911 articles was set up during the 1988–2019 period, bringing up the authors’ productivity indicators in the scientific field, that is, journals, authors, research institutions, and countries. We have identified environmental management; the impact assessments of industrial processes on the environment and its relation with a more sustainable society; as well as the study of the sustainable management of water resources as the related axes in the study of environmental protection with political, economic, and educational approaches. The growing trend of world scientific publications let us observe the relevance of industrial processes management in the implementation of efficient models to achieve sustainable societies. This research contributes to the academic, scientific, and social debate on decision-making both in public and private institutions, and in multidisciplinary groups.

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Emilio Abad-Segura; Manuel E. Morales; Francisco Joaquín Cortés-García; Luis Jesús Belmonte-Ureña. Industrial Processes Management for a Sustainable Society: Global Research Analysis. Processes 2020, 8, 631 .

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Emilio Abad-Segura, Manuel E. Morales, Francisco Joaquín Cortés-García, Luis Jesús Belmonte-Ureña. Industrial Processes Management for a Sustainable Society: Global Research Analysis. Processes. 2020; 8 (5):631.

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Emilio Abad-Segura; Manuel E. Morales; Francisco Joaquín Cortés-García; Luis Jesús Belmonte-Ureña. 2020. "Industrial Processes Management for a Sustainable Society: Global Research Analysis." Processes 8, no. 5: 631.

Journal article
Published: 03 April 2019 in Sustainability
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Industrial symbiosis (IS) is presented as an inter-firm organizational strategy with the aim of social innovation that targets material and energy flow optimization but also structural sustainability. In this paper, we present geographical proximity as the theoretical framework used to analyse industrial symbiosis through a methodology based on System Dynamics and the underpinning use of Causal Loop Diagrams, aiming to identify the main drivers and hindrances that reinforce or regulate the industrial symbiosis’s sustainability. The understanding of industrial symbiosis is embedded in a theoretical framework that conceptualizes industry as a complex ecosystem in which proximity analysis and stakeholder theory are determinant, giving this methodology a comparative advantage over descriptive statistical forecasting, because it is able to integrate social causal rationality when forecasting attractiveness in a region or individual firm’s potential. A successful industrial symbiosis lasts only if it is able to address collective action problems. The stakeholders’ influence then becomes essential to the complex understanding of this institution, because by shaping individual behaviour in a social context, industrial symbiosis provides a degree of coordination and cooperation in order to overcome social dilemmas for actors who cannot achieve their own goals alone. The proposed narrative encourages us to draw up scenarios, integrating variables from different motivational value dimensions: efficiency, resilience, cooperation and proximity in the industrial symbiosis. We use the Dunkirk case study to explain the role of geographical systems analysis, identifying loops that reinforce or regulate the sustainability of industrial symbiosis and identifying three leverage points: “Training, workshop and education programs for managers and directors,” “Industrial symbiosis governance” and “Agreements in waste regulation conflicts.” The social dynamics aims for the consolidation of the network, through stakeholder interaction and explains the local success and failure of every industrial symbiosis through a system dynamics analysis.

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Manuel E. Morales; Arnaud Diemer. Industrial Symbiosis Dynamics, a Strategy to Accomplish Complex Analysis: The Dunkirk Case Study. Sustainability 2019, 11, 1971 .

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Manuel E. Morales, Arnaud Diemer. Industrial Symbiosis Dynamics, a Strategy to Accomplish Complex Analysis: The Dunkirk Case Study. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (7):1971.

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Manuel E. Morales; Arnaud Diemer. 2019. "Industrial Symbiosis Dynamics, a Strategy to Accomplish Complex Analysis: The Dunkirk Case Study." Sustainability 11, no. 7: 1971.

Journal article
Published: 07 February 2019 in Sustainability
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In the pursuit of eco-efficiency, resilience, and self-sufficiency, sustainable cities focus on long-term environmental goals instead of only short-term economic ones. To do so, many of them rely on servitization, the practice of replacing tangible solutions for intangible ones. Considering steel’s wide range of applications and its pervasive presence, this article’s goal was twofold: Not only to understand how servitization helps sustainable cities, but also the contributions and challenges of the steel present in service-providing. To do so, the criteria of sustainable urban metabolism and circles of sustainability were used to analyze three case studies of servitization: energy, housing, and mobility. The results showed that servitization can provide significant benefits to sustainable cities, while also being able to substantially alter the supply-side dynamics of steelmaking by affecting, most notably, demand. This brought to light how important it is for steelmakers to pay close attention to the service-providing initiatives that may concern their clients and products. Nevertheless, further research is necessary to fully understand all of the effects that servitization can have on all of the commodities involved in its implementation.

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Julian T. M. Pinto; Manuel E. Morales; Mariia Fedoruk; Marina Kovaleva; Arnaud Diemer. Servitization in Support of Sustainable Cities: What Are Steel’s Contributions and Challenges? Sustainability 2019, 11, 855 .

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Julian T. M. Pinto, Manuel E. Morales, Mariia Fedoruk, Marina Kovaleva, Arnaud Diemer. Servitization in Support of Sustainable Cities: What Are Steel’s Contributions and Challenges? Sustainability. 2019; 11 (3):855.

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Julian T. M. Pinto; Manuel E. Morales; Mariia Fedoruk; Marina Kovaleva; Arnaud Diemer. 2019. "Servitization in Support of Sustainable Cities: What Are Steel’s Contributions and Challenges?" Sustainability 11, no. 3: 855.

Journal article
Published: 05 October 2018 in Resources, Conservation and Recycling
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The Industrial symbiosis emergence constitute a complex and dynamic process that we set in four different phases in this paper: Emergence, Regional efficiency, Regional learning, and Sustainable Industrial District. Embedded in a theoretical framework concerning the industrial symbiosis dynamic, this paper triggers a historical sequence of consequences in the industrial ecosystem evolution encompassing micro and macro elements, which also depends upon the individual actors’ intervention in the network. The industrial symbiosis at Altamira is depicted here as a centralized and ancillary industrial symbiosis embedding a socio-technical and environmental model, one of the most complete biophysical, social, and economic symbiotic case studies in Latin America. The further historical analysis uses the number of actors composing the industrial network and the amount of material and energy exchange flows as a proxy for the success of the Altamira By-Products Industrial Symbiosis as a way to approach sustainability in the industrial ecosystem and attractiveness in the territory. According to the analysis of those proxies in Altamira, the actors involved in the network decrease at the Regional efficiency stage, with the highest synergies rate. The Regional learning phase follows the dynamic through an eco-innovative ecosystem strategy, encompassing small and medium size firms in the region, as the mechanisms for improving learning and innovation, decreasing transaction costs and boosting sustainability.

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E. Manuel Morales; Arnaud Diemer; Gemma Cervantes; Graciela Carrillo-González. “By-product synergy” changes in the industrial symbiosis dynamics at the Altamira-Tampico industrial corridor: 20 Years of industrial ecology in Mexico. Resources, Conservation and Recycling 2018, 140, 235 -245.

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E. Manuel Morales, Arnaud Diemer, Gemma Cervantes, Graciela Carrillo-González. “By-product synergy” changes in the industrial symbiosis dynamics at the Altamira-Tampico industrial corridor: 20 Years of industrial ecology in Mexico. Resources, Conservation and Recycling. 2018; 140 ():235-245.

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E. Manuel Morales; Arnaud Diemer; Gemma Cervantes; Graciela Carrillo-González. 2018. "“By-product synergy” changes in the industrial symbiosis dynamics at the Altamira-Tampico industrial corridor: 20 Years of industrial ecology in Mexico." Resources, Conservation and Recycling 140, no. : 235-245.