Socially Sustainable Manufacturing: Exploring the European Landscape
Paper in proceeding, 2014

Sustainable manufacturing has been extensively researched in the last decades, however there is a lack of coherence in literature specifically addressing its social dimension. Within the framework of the Social Sustainability-themed project SO SMART (Socially Sustainable Manufacturing for the Factories of the Future), a preliminary explorative survey and interview study were deployed among manufacturing companies and their stakeholders in Europe to investigate the extent to which they understand and practice social sustainability in relation to their business activities and context. Using an inquiry approach based on the main concepts related to social sustainability found in literature, this paper reports findings on preliminary exploration of the European landscape of social sustainability-related practices from a corporate and societal perspective. Findings contribute to the creation of a basis of shared knowledge as a prerequisite for extending and further developing concepts and models for socially sustainable manufacturing ecosystems.

social sustainability

sustainable manufacturing ecosystems

Author

P. Fantini

Polytechnic University of Milan

C. Palasciano

Polytechnic University of Milan

M. Taisch

Polytechnic University of Milan

Cecilia Berlin

Chalmers, Product and Production Development, Production Systems

Caroline Adams

Chalmers, Product and Production Development, Production Systems

Johan Stahre

Chalmers, Product and Production Development, Production Systems

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

1868-4238 (ISSN) 1868-422X (eISSN)

Vol. 439 2 474-481
9783662447352 (ISBN)

Subject Categories

Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics

Driving Forces

Sustainable development

DOI

10.1007/978-3-662-44736-9_58

ISBN

9783662447352

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