The development of Industry 4.0 in industrial companies has led to the integration of physical objects, people, and smart machines in the production lines in the pursuit of efficient production processes with high added ...

This article examined the opportunities and challenges of mapping emissions associated with value chains in a subregional context, using the Basque Country as a case study. By leveraging symmetric input–output tables, the ...

Establishing sustainability policies and business strategies involvesmapping environmental, economic, and social factors in an inte-grative way. In the academic literature, environmentally extendedinput-output tables have ...

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are at the heart of a nation's wealth creation, employment generation and economic development. Hence, new ways to sustain and reinforce their competitiveness in today’s fast-changing, ...

The main objective of this study was to establish the relationship between the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) and the performance of business diversification within a sample of companies belonging ...

Purpose: In order to achieve excellence, outsourced maintenance contractors in Oil&Gas sector play a key role due to the important impact of their task on security, availability and energy consumption. This paper presents ...

The European higher education landscape has experienced dramatic changes in the last decades, indeed, it has changed from only teaching to economic and social development of the regions (Bronstein and Reihlen, 2014; ...

This article is part of a research stream that aims to evaluate the impact of circular economy policies on greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction and the industrial structure of specific regions. Building upon previous ...

Energy communities are increasingly seen as a key lever for the energy transition. However, energy communities need supportive ecosystems to overcome the challenges they face individually. This study explores the development ...