Understanding the Drivers of Industry 4.0 Technologies to Enhance Supply Chain Sustainability: Insights from the Agri-Food Industry

IF 6.9 3区管理学 Q1 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Information Systems Frontiers Pub Date : 2024-09-26 DOI:10.1007/s10796-024-10539-1

Guoqing Zhao, Xiaoning Chen, Paul Jones, Shaofeng Liu, Carmen Lopez, Leonardo Leoni, Denis Dennehy

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The sustainability of agri-food supply chains (AFSCs) is severely threatened by regional and global events (e.g., conflicts, natural and human-made disasters, climate crises). In response, the AFSC industry is seeking digital solutions using Industry 4.0 (I4.0) technologies to enhance resilience and efficiency. However, why I4.0 adoption remains stubbornly low in the agri-food industry remains poorly understood. To address this gap, this study draws on middle-range theory (MRT) and uses thematic analysis, the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process, total interpretive structural modelling, and fuzzy cross-impact matrix multiplication applied to classification to produce insights from nine case studies in China that have invested in I4.0 technologies to improve their AFSC sustainability. New drivers of I4.0 unique to the agri-food industry are identified, showing how I4.0 can contribute to the environmental, economic, and social dimensions of AFSC sustainability. The results have implications for AFSC researchers and practitioners with an interest in supply chain sustainability.

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了解工业 4.0 技术对提高供应链可持续性的推动力：农业食品行业的启示

农业食品供应链（AFSC）的可持续性受到区域和全球事件（如冲突、自然和人为灾害、气候危机）的严重威胁。为此，农业食品供应链行业正在寻求使用工业 4.0（I4.0）技术的数字化解决方案，以提高复原力和效率。然而，人们对农业食品行业采用 I4.0 技术的比例为何仍然很低仍然知之甚少。为了填补这一空白，本研究借鉴了中程理论（MRT），并采用了专题分析、模糊分析层次过程、总体解释结构建模和模糊交叉影响矩阵乘法进行分类，从中国九个投资 I4.0 技术以提高农业食品加工业可持续性的案例研究中得出了见解。研究发现了农业食品行业独有的 I4.0 新驱动力，展示了 I4.0 如何促进农业食品加工业可持续发展的环境、经济和社会层面。研究结果对关注供应链可持续性的农业食品供应链研究人员和从业人员具有重要意义。

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Information Systems Frontiers 工程技术-计算机：理论方法

CiteScore

13.30

自引率

18.60%

发文量

127

审稿时长

9 months

期刊介绍： The interdisciplinary interfaces of Information Systems (IS) are fast emerging as defining areas of research and development in IS. These developments are largely due to the transformation of Information Technology (IT) towards networked worlds and its effects on global communications and economies. While these developments are shaping the way information is used in all forms of human enterprise, they are also setting the tone and pace of information systems of the future. The major advances in IT such as client/server systems, the Internet and the desktop/multimedia computing revolution, for example, have led to numerous important vistas of research and development with considerable practical impact and academic significance. While the industry seeks to develop high performance IS/IT solutions to a variety of contemporary information support needs, academia looks to extend the reach of IS technology into new application domains. Information Systems Frontiers (ISF) aims to provide a common forum of dissemination of frontline industrial developments of substantial academic value and pioneering academic research of significant practical impact.