Organizational and managerial challenges in the path toward Industry 4.0

European Journal of Innovation Management - Tập 22 Số 3 - Trang 406-421 - 2019
Lara Agostini1, Roberto Filippini1
1Department of Management and Engineering, University of Padua, Padova, Italy

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PurposeCurrently, the expectancy that surrounds the Fourth Industrial Revolution, commonly referred to as Industry 4.0 (I4.0), is huge. In this context, the purpose of this paper is to unveil whether and how organizational and managerial practices are associated to different levels of adoption of I4.0 technologies.Design/methodology/approachTo reach this aim, the authors carried out a survey involving Italian manufacturing firms. Then, the authors used a cluster analysis andt-test to analyze data.FindingsResults show that two clusters of firms based on their level of adoption of I4.0 technologies (high vs low) can be identified. Then, using at-test, the authors found statistically significant higher levels of a number of organizational and managerial practices for firms with a higher level of adoption of I4.0 technologies.Practical implicationsThis paper contributes to the debate surrounding I4.0 by stressing the organizational and managerial challenges that firms willing to undertake an I4.0 transformation have to face, which goes beyond the sole application of I4.0 technologies.Social implicationsEntrepreneurs and managers need to be aware that the path toward I4.0 requires not only focusing on the application of the I4.0 technologies, but also on the development of a series of organizational and managerial practices that become key to face the fourth Industrial Revolution.Originality/valueThe authors posit here that I4.0 requires firms to bridge the capability gap, as well as overcome cultural barriers preventing entrepreneurs and managers to change their way of doing business. To this regard, this study highlights I4.0 is an all-encompassing paradigm that involves many dimensions of the firm.

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European Journal of Innovation Management

Tập 22 Số 3

406-421

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