Socially Sustainable Manufacturing: Exploring the European Landscape [chapter]

Paola Fantini, Claudio Palasciano, Marco Taisch, Cecilia Berlin, Caroline Adams, Johan Stahre
2014 IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology  
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 Sustainabilitythemed 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
more » ... 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.
doi:10.1007/978-3-662-44736-9_58 fatcat:tf23aolx5fgntf63t3t4cm6fey