Green Charcoal

2020 ◽  
pp. 132-159
Author(s):  
Shreyas More ◽  
Meenal Sutaria
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
High Growth ◽  
Resource Consumption ◽  
Natural Habitats ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
Building Systems ◽  
Over Time

The two main challenges that future cities will face are the unavailability of material resources and the waste generated as a result of resource consumption. The chapter exhibits applied research into green charcoal that addresses the crisis of the fourth industrial revolution through the development of a biomaterial consisting of luffa, charcoal, and soil. It justifies that building materiality must be intentionally designed to transform over time and support an ecosystem of plants, insects, and birds to create self-sustaining natural habitats for all lifeforms. The approach to building materiality and building systems is performance-based, circular, and net positive, thus representing a departure from conventional architectural practices. It provides a framework for high-growth countries like India to reverse the resource crisis and achieve a competitive advantage over mature economies through such initiatives.

scholarly journals THE IMPACT OF THE DETERMINANTS OF FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION ON COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE AND SUSTAINABILITY – A STUDY FOR MALAYSIAN SMES

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 283-289
Author(s):  
Dr Sreenivasan Jayashree ◽  
Chinasamy Agamudainambi Malarvizhi ◽  
Mohammad Nurul Hassan Reza
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Technical Innovation ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Time Data ◽  
Inherent Difficulty ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
Smart Technologies ◽  
The Impact

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) constitute one of the leading economic factors with strong consumer and stakeholder aspirations. The Fourth Industrial Revolution may also be defined as Industry 4.0, because it has evolved through automation and technical innovation that can transform products and manufacturing processes by real-time data integration, allowing consumers to be satisfied through customized products. It is important to examine the uniqueness of Industry 4.0 and the inherent difficulty in understanding the determinants, as most recent studies address the technological dimension of the concept. This study addresses the effect of the core determinants of Industry 4.0 in achieving sustainability as well as competitive advantage. The findings will serve to offer valuable insights for the SMEs to adopt smart technologies in the production system concerning Industry 4.0. This paper presents a conceptual model including hypotheses that can be tested further through a quantitative analysis.

scholarly journals A competitive intelligence model based on information literacy: organizational competitiveness in the context of the 4th Industrial Revolution

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Selma Leticia Capinzaiki Ottonicar ◽  
Marta Lígia Pomim Valentim ◽  
Elaine Mosconi
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Business Management ◽  
Competitive Intelligence ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
Collaborative Innovation

This paper investigated how information literacy and competitive intelligence areconnected in business management and information science fields. It demonstrates thecontribution of information literacy in the phases of the competitive intelligence process. Thispaper is relevant, since the model supports creativity and collaborative innovation in smallbusinesses in the context of Industry 4.0. Furthermore, it contributed to connect the informationscience and business management fields, so it is multidisciplinary. It also proposes a theoreticalmodel of information literacy and competitive intelligence in the context of Industry 4.0, whichcan be used for applied research. The methodology was developed based on a systematicliterature review (SLR) of information literature and competitive intelligence. These conceptscontribute to the development of a framework and a conceptual model in which the three themesare interconnected and demonstrate that information literacy can efficiently contribute to thecompetitive intelligence process, especially in the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

scholarly journals Reaping the Benefits of Industry 4.0 through Skills Development in High-Growth Industries in Southeast Asia: Insights from Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Viet Nam

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shanti Jagannathan ◽  
Dorothy Geronimo
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
High Growth ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
Viet Nam ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
Synthesis Report ◽  
And Training

This synthesis report explores the implications of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) on the future of the job market in Southeast Asia. It is part of the series of reports that assesses how jobs, tasks, and skills are being transformed in industries with high relevance to 4IR technologies in Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Viet Nam. The series provides recommendations to strengthen policies, skills, and training as well as new approaches, strategies, and actions to enhance the readiness of each country’s workforce for 4IR.

scholarly journals Public Administration 4.0 : Theoretical Exploration of Disruptive Governance Paradigm

2020 ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Ahmad Syakrani Bunasim
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
False Belief ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Core ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
Long Time

For a long time, public sector was trapped in a false belief; a myth  that it did not need to change, that it did not need to be strong, wiser, agile, dynamic, and adaptive to an everchanging environment as it became an inevitable factor for corporations, who had to maintain their competitive advantage in order to always to be more excellent than other corporations. This paper will trace that in the era of Fourth Industrial Revolution, the public sector has to earnestly get out of this trap and need to inject new DNA; not only entrepreneurship DNA, but also disruptive governance DNA that inducts on innovative disruption, agility, and dynamic governance so that it will not only carry out the routinized governance responsibilities, but it can also be present in the middle of the public with strong, wiser, agile, adaptive, and humane presence. This paper concludes with an offer of a model of disruptive governance that is the core of Public Administration 4.0.

Resource-Based Logistics (RBL) and Competitive Advantage

2020 ◽  
pp. 181-194
Author(s):  
Noorliza Karia ◽  
H.M. Emrul Kays
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Fast Moving ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Logistics Industry ◽  
Logistics Service ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
Knowledge Based

Logistics service is more complex and knowledge-based in the fourth industrial revolution era. Given this significance, this chapter emphasizes the logistics industry and its specific dynamic capabilities, and measures generating the Industry 4.0 by extending the resource-based logistics (RBL) of Noorliza (2011). The chapter has three parts: Logistics in the fourth industrial revolution, RBL theory, and its impacts and Logistics 4.0 models in the fast-moving environment. This explains how logisticians or logistics firms obtain competitive advantages in the fourth industrial revolution era.

Innovation in a Context of Declining Returns to R&D

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 34-51
Author(s):  
Chris William Callaghan
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Novel Technologies ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
Conceptual Paper ◽  
New Form ◽  
Over Time

Innovation theory has arguably driven the innovations that have contributed to human development over time. According to discussions related to the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution,' interactions of novel technologies herald an age of unequalled productivity and human progress. Evidence however suggests that returns to innovation (narrowly defined here as investments in R&D), are in fact continuing to decline. Given this paradox, the objective of this conceptual paper is to present an argument drawn from theory that it is only a matter of time until declining returns to innovation reverse themselves and a new form of R&D problem solving becomes more widely utilised. If the propositions offered here are borne out by future research, then an important reconceptualization of the nature of the innovation process might be useful, one that questions Cohen and Levinthal's notion of absorptive capacity and path dependency as the primary mode of innovation problem solving.

scholarly journals 4.0 Industry: understanding the impact of technological changes of the fourth industrial revolution on competitiveness in sandal factories of Cariri Region

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-42
Author(s):  
Alana Vitória Rodrigues Barreto ◽  
Antônio Wilson dos Santos ◽  
Antoniel Dos Santos Gomes Filho
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
Footwear Industry ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
The Impact

New technologies are increasingly appearing to assist people in all areas. In the footwear industry it would not be different, where the industry 4.0 or fourth industrial revolution characterizes the current moment. This research examined how the managers of some sandal factories in the Cariri Region are realizing the changes and technological advances of industry 4.0 as a source of competitive advantage. A field research of a basic nature, with a qualitative and descriptive approach, where interviews were applied with the managers of sandal factories in the Region of Cariri, chosen for convenience and judgment of the researcher. The study is relevant due to the existence of great changes that have been taking place within the companies along with new technologies that are emerging, but it is not known how managers receive these changes and use them to benefit the company and in the search for a differential for competitive advantage in the market. At the end of the research it was possible to conclude that from the reality of each manager and company the way they receive and use the technologies of the fourth industrial revolution changes, and the lack of knowledge, structure, and money in the smaller companies makes the potential use competitive advantage is not so much taken advantage of.

scholarly journals INTENSITY OF INNOVATION ACTIVITY AND ITS PROGRESSIVITY IN ENTERPRISES IN SLOVAKIA IN THE ERA OF INDUSTRY 4.0

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 250-254
Author(s):  
PATRIK RICHNÁK
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Innovation Activity ◽  
Sustainable Competitive Advantage ◽  
Environmental Consequences ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
Innovative Potential ◽  
Social Environmental

At present, it is not easy to define and recognise the innovative potential of an enterprise in a market environment. It is about identifying the components, relationships and understanding the concepts, interconnections and achieving the expected economic, social, environmental consequences of introducing and managing innovation. Innovation is associated with increased performance, the creation of new markets and competitive advantage. Enterprises are innovating to defend their existing competitive positions as well as to seek a sustainable competitive advantage. The paper's main goal was to examine the degree of the introduction of innovations in enterprises in Slovakia in the era of Industry 4.0 on the basis of a knowledge base and a questionnaire survey. By applying theoretical knowledge and statistical methods of evaluating the questionnaire survey, we came to potential opportunities for the development of innovation activity in the ongoing fourth industrial revolution in the surveyed enterprises.

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