Industry 4.0 Enabling Technologies Contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals Achieving: A Content Analysis

• Pavel Malyzhenkov

  Department of Information Systems and Technologies, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Bolshaya Pecherskaya 603115, Nizhni Novgorod, Russia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1973-5026 (unauthenticated)

• Mariagrazia Provenzano

  Department of Economics, Engineering, Society, Business Organization, University of Tuscia, Via del Paradiso, 47, 01100 Viterbo, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0737-1907 (unauthenticated)

• Michela Piccarozzi

  Department of Economics, Engineering, Society, Business Organization, University of Tuscia, via del Paradiso, 47, 01100 Viterbo, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9717-9462 (unauthenticated)

• Cecilia Silvestri

  Department of Economics, Engineering, Society, Business Organization, University of Tuscia, via del Paradiso, 47, 01100 Viterbo, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2528-601X (unauthenticated)

• Luigi Fici

  Department of Economics, Engineering, Society, Business Organization, University of Tuscia, via del Paradiso, 47, 01100 Viterbo, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0548-1320 (unauthenticated)

The aim of the paper consists in the monitoring of Industry 4.0 enabling technologies (ET) adopting by the most innovative companies ranked by BCG classification, for Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) reaching. The development of Industry 4.0 ET has been considerably studied in the literature and its relationship to sustainability in its three pillars has been much investigated in recent years. The results show the three-years temporary dynamics of Industry 4.0 ET application in sustainability practices based on the communication process in the firms’ Sustainability Reports (SR) with the proven prevalence of IoT technology.

1. Mariagrazia Provenzano, Department of Economics, Engineering, Society, Business Organization, University of Tuscia, Via del Paradiso, 47, 01100 Viterbo, Italy

   PhD Student in Economics, Management & Quantitative Methods 

2. Michela Piccarozzi, Department of Economics, Engineering, Society, Business Organization, University of Tuscia, via del Paradiso, 47, 01100 Viterbo, Italy

   Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, Engineering, Society, Business Organization 

3. Cecilia Silvestri, Department of Economics, Engineering, Society, Business Organization, University of Tuscia, via del Paradiso, 47, 01100 Viterbo, Italy

   Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, Engineering, Society, Business Organization

4. Luigi Fici, Department of Economics, Engineering, Society, Business Organization, University of Tuscia, via del Paradiso, 47, 01100 Viterbo, Italy

   Full Professor in the Department of Economics, Engineering, Society, Business Organization

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