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- Research Collaborator in Sustainability & Business Innovation
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October 2013 - present
Gruppo Ceramiche Gresmalt S.p.A
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- Innovation Program Manager
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Publications (54)
Historically, corporate assessment of performance has placed a significant emphasis on financial measures, while largely ignoring the broader environmental and resource efficiency implications of organizational operations. This paper introduces a novel framework that integrates thermoeconomic principles into performance measurement. Systemic Exergy...
This seminal study explores systemic sustainability within the Industry 5.0 paradigm, using the strategic lens of geoanthropology to shape the emerging concept of Industry 6.0. A transdisciplinary approach is adopted, integrating geoanthropological insights into the analysis of the Italian ceramic district. Seven key factors are considered: resourc...
The world is currently undergoing an unprecedented period of global disruption, marked by the COVID-19 pandemic, the ongoing war in Ukraine, and escalating geopolitical tensions [...]
This study explores the complex nexus between technological innovation, Industry 4.0’s transformative paradigm, and the emerging concept of Industry 5.0, highlighting the critical role of integrating sustainability into factories to enhance organizational competitiveness. In this context, confusion arises between the terms “sustainable technologies...
Starting from the reality of the ceramic industry, which has already successfully digitized its processes within the framework of the Industry 4.0 model, START aims to research and validate technological solutions and operational models capable of guiding the digital transformation of an industrial company up to the scale of product implementation....
Sustainability’s growth, year after year, continues to be staggering, becoming a reference point for those working on these issues. There are 65,433 papers in the Scopus database, of which 61,016 (93%) are articles. The year 2022 proposes 16,996 papers, 21% more than the previous year (14,053 papers). The comparison is even more significant compare...
Disruption in many supply chains has shown the vulnerability of global supply networks, especially resource-intensive ones, due to the simultaneous effects of pandemics and geopolitical crises. Reshoring and nearshoring strategies are the possible responses of manufacturing companies to disruptions in order to adapt to unforeseen events. The supply...
The transition to a circular economy is a key concern for the fashion industry. The emerging secondhand market is a practice that could enable the circular economy in the fashion industry. As this is an emerging trend, the literature has not yet sufficiently explored how it is possible to simultaneously meet consumer and industry expectations in th...
In manufacturing, Industry 4.0 operating models enable greener technologies. Thanks to digital technologies, environmental sustainability and organizational competitiveness are mutually reinforcing. The challenge for manufacturing organizations is to understand and quantify the magnitude of this synergistic action, and the holistic perspective of l...
Organizations often face difficulties when measuring their social performance. The lack of international standards, the qualitative/quantitative nature of data, and the unavailability of primary sources all hinder social impact assessments, especially in manufacturing settings. To fill these gaps, the method proposes a simple application protocol o...
Sustainability is an essential goal for companies to pursue alongside their efforts to cope with a period of economic crisis and uncertainty. Technologically mature manufacturing sectors need to preserve their competitiveness, and process and product innovation may no longer be sufficient to stimulate demand. Strategic innovation is one possible op...
The purpose of this chapter is to offer a new perspective on the economic dimension of sustainability in terms of circular economy, starting from a ceramic tile-manufacturing context. In this field, the Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment Framework (LCSA) is one of the most widely adopted methodologies in the evaluation of sustainability. The Life...
Purpose
The best strategy to apply for the future cannot disregard a careful analysis of the past and is the one capable of seizing opportunities from outside. Manufacturing sectors are characterized by sudden changes, and in this work, we analyze the ceramic tiles sector characterized by a mature technology in which innovation has played a key rol...
This editorial, using a practical example, aims to provide some food for thought. In aligning
with the increasing trend and needs (Figure 1), a new section of this journal, Bioeconomy of
Sustainability, is timely and strategic to provide possible solutions to real-world problems.
Nowadays in manufacturing, the topic of sustainability plays a key role. However, over the years, economic crises and the climate change debate have focused the attention of scholars, industrialists and policy makers mainly on environmental sustainability, putting social sustainability on the back burner. This is also evident in the scientific lite...
The increasing European consumer awareness of cybersecurity and sustainability issues in e-commerce is raising key methodological concerns. In a field like this, still unexplored by scholars, it is crucial to identify reliable data as well as to choose the modalities of combining primary and secondary data. As the robustness of the outcome of a stu...
The digital transformation of manufacturing firms, in addition to making operations more efficient, offers important opportunities both to promote the transition to a circular economy and to experiment with new techniques for designing smarter and greener products. This study integrates Industry 4.0 technologies, smart data, Life Cycle Assessment m...
The topic of sustainability is becoming one of the strongest drivers of change in the marketplace by transforming into an element of competitiveness and an integral part of business strategy. Particularly in the manufacturing sector, a key role is played by technological innovations that allow companies to minimize the impact of their business on t...
Risk management plays a key role in uncertain times, preventing corporations from acting rashly and incorrectly, allowing them to become flexible and resilient. A global turbulence such as the COVID-19 pandemic has had a strong impact on individual companies and entire economic sectors, raising the question of whether a paradigm shift is necessary,...
The e-waste sector is characterized by a rapid growth at global level and therefore involves an area not yet sufficiently investigated in its risk management dimension. This research fills the gap of the absence of a holistic approach to risk identification and assessment in e-waste management, suggesting a new Risk Awareness Indicator (RAI). An in...
The application of the principles of circularity requires a transformation towards knowledge-based firms, which consider knowledge to be a fundamental asset and the basis for the development of their strategy. To this end, we consider it essential to transform the current Business Models of organizations. Based on a systematic review of the literat...
The pandemic has changed the citizens’ behavior, inducing them to avoid any real contact. This has given an incredible impulse to e-commerce; however, the complexity of the topic has not yet been adequately explored in the literature. To fill this gap, this study has a twofold purpose: (1) to investigate how European countries comparatively perform...
Converging business, sustainability, and technology is a challenge that manufacturing firms face to create value and be competitive. Energy- and raw material-intensive manufacturing industries are particularly aware of environmental issues and circular economy practices due to the large amounts of resources they use. However, manufacturing companie...
Nowadays, the buzzwords for organizations to be prepared for the competitive environment’s challenges are sustainability, digitalization, resilience and agility. However, despite the fact that these concepts have come into common use at the level of both scholars and practitioners, the nature of the relation between sustainability and resilience ha...
With the advent of Industry 4.0, new technologies have been made available to companies in order to monitor, integrate and trace processes through integrated digital systems; thanks to a combination of sensors and control systems, manufacturing information are collected and processed so that a detailed database helpful for the monitoring and contin...
This study examined the literature on social life-cycle assessment (S-LCA) published in the last 15 years (2003–2018) using bibliometric methods. Applying scientific mapping and analyzing publication performance, the study describes the structure of and trends in S-LCA publications in terms of related subject categories, authors, journals, countrie...
Circular economy is an alternative to the traditional production model and has therefore attracted a great deal of attention from researchers. The change in the production system is accompanied by new logistical needs related both to resources and waste and to the distribution and recovery of products. The circular supply chain involves return proc...
The Circular Economy is an alternative to the traditional production model
toward solution-oriented model. This paradigm supports the achievement of a
sustainable and viable economy that does not require a perpetual growth of
consumption. The management of materials and products or services is
reconsidered, experimenting with how to extend their us...
For manufacturing companies, the transition to circular business models (CBMs) can be hampered both by the lack of relevant data and by operational tools. Eco-design, associated with Industry 4.0 IoT (Internet of Things) technologies, can be an effective methodological approach in developing products that are consistent with the principles of the c...
Purpose
The restoration of cultural heritage, like in other production sectors, requires an innovative approach to integrate the principles of sustainability into processes. The main purpose of this article is to demonstrate that an integrated environmental and social impact assessment of restoration works can be conducted through the use of an ope...
The purpose of this paper is to explore the application of a hermeneutic-based approach as innovative way to study the Cultural Heritage management in a mesoeconomic space. The paper builds a theoretical framework based on the analysis of relevant literature in the field of cultural economics, heritage economics and conservation and restoration tec...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore how sustainability can become a source of competitive advantage for mature manufacturing sectors where technologies are standardized, and innovation is mainly generated across the value chain and not by individual companies.
Design/methodology/approach
From the methodological point of view, this rese...
The purpose of this paper is to determine indices of environmental, economic and social sustainability related to the Italian production of ceramic tiles in porcelain stoneware in order to contribute to the construction of a reference benchmarking useful to decision makers, designers and end users of ceramic tiles. To achieve this goal, this paper...
Sustainable development and the circular economy are two important issues for the future and the competitiveness of businesses. The programs for the integration of sustainability into industrial activities include the reconfiguration of production processes with a view to reducing their impact on the natural system, the development of new eco-susta...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the strategic management of risks in companies from a marketing management perspective and to provide some guidance for management practice.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper presents the authors’ viewpoint, and it conceptualizes a new approach to risk management.
Findings
The conceptual discus...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to analyse the production cycle of glazed porcelain stoneware, from the extraction of raw materials to the packaging of the finished product, with the aim of verifying the effects of integrating an environmental impact assessment into the decision-making process for managing the life cycle, to make it economica...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to develop an innovative branding method based on the hermeneutical approach and interpretive theory, to respond to the need of a simple and effective tool to build corporate identity through an industrial brand identity design and, being a new business, has been considered the brand perception of their stakehol...
One of the biggest challenges for European industry is to introduce sustainability principles into business models. This is particularly important in raw material and energy intensive manufacturing sectors such as the ceramic industry. The present state of knowledge lacks a comprehensive operational tool for industry to support decision-making proc...
Sustainable restoration process is one of the biggest challenges for public and private decision makers in the Cultural Heritage sector. Currently, sustainability assessment methods are well established tools to quantitatively determine their environmental (LCA), economic (LCC) and social (SLCA) impacts from products/service across the entire value...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to present alternative management practice methods for the Cultural Heritage Sector apart from the traditional public support model. These alternatives rely on Sponsorship and Patronage as well as the newer and more innovative Public Private Partnership (PPP).
Design/methodology/approach
The paper is organize...
Purpose
– In this paper, of exploratory character, the purpose of this paper is to propose the analysis of the life cycle for assessing the environmental, economic, and social impact in the activity of recovery, restoration, and valorization of Cultural Heritage.
Design/methodology/approach
– The analysis protocol is applied to the case of recover...
Roccastrada rhyolites are pliocenic volcanites of crustal anatectic origin;
they represent the most acid product of the Toscan Magmatic Province.
A kaolin deposit, derived from hydrothermal weathering of the
Roccastrada rhyolites, formed near Piloni di Torniella (GR, southern
Tuscany). The raw material is currently mined for the ceramic industry.
H...
The influence of the glass-ceramic addition on mechanical properties and microstructural characteristics of porcelain stoneware tiles has been studied. Mechanical characterisation has been carried out on industrial and laboratory porcelain stoneware tiles obtained by mixing glass-ceramic systems to current industrial bodies. Moreover, microstructur...
A new glass-ceramic material belonging to a ZrO2-CaO-SiO2 (ZCS) system was prepared, this material was proved to crystallize as frit by temperatures over 1,050°C. The glass-ceramic crystallization was detected by both slow and quick thermal cycles, in such a way to simulate the operative condition of an industrial firing. The high thermal stability...
The paper reports a preliminary study about alumina short fibres (20 mass-%) and particulate reinforced glass-ceramic matrix composites. The fabrication techniques used are: a) preparation of pellet containing randomly distributed fibres and particulate, by wet mixing, cold pressing and sintering of the dried powders; b) tape casting. The nature of...
Calcia magnesia alumina silica (CMAS) glass ceramics containing anorthite, diopside, and barium feldspars as crystalline phases have been fabricated by uniaxial pressing of tape cast glass powder multilayers. The sinterability of the parent glass was investigated from observations of the densification process and the extent of crystallisation deter...
Fully vitrified stoneware tiles are very important low-porosity products obtained by high-sintering of unglazed ceramic bodies and used for exterior applications and as frost-resistant materials. The dense microstructure of the fired tiles is characterized by strongly interlocked crystals of quartz and mullite embedded in an amorphous glassy phase....
The sintering behaviour of CMAS glass-ceramic and CMAS glass-ceramic/alumina chopped fibre (20 wt%) composites was studied at different temperatures, ranging from 800 to 1000°C, using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction analysis (XRD) and porosimetry investigations. The evaluation of linear shrinkage, density and porosity were suf...
Interlayer minerals of the chlorite-smectite-type (corrensite) of high and low charges and segregated chlorite have been found in a outcrops of serpentine rocks in the Taro Valley (Parma). Two samples were studied by means of DTA, chemical analyses, X-ray calculated diffractometer profiles, and with the adoption of theoretical modellization that we...
