Sustainable Circular Economy in Industry 4.0
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 March 2025 | Viewed by 277
Special Issue Editors
Interests: smart city artificial intelligence of things; blockchain-based decentralized metaverse systems; digital twin simulation and modeling technologies; multisensory immersive extended reality algorithms
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Interests: consumer behavior; sustainable marketing; retail marketing; international marketing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The focus of this Special Issue is on circular economy and Industry 4.0 research that can improve sustainability practices, efficiency, and performance in organizations through resource and technological support optimization in the multisensory immersive extended reality-based digital economy. The scope is to integrate research clarifying how smart product manufacturing, artificial intelligence algorithms, and big data processing and blockchain technologies enable sustained circular supply chain operations and performance, management practices, and product digitalization. The purpose is to show how Artificial Intelligence of Things, cloud computing services, and digital twin simulation and modeling technologies assist sustainable product management decision-making in resource planning and logistics, optimizing economic and environmental performance. This Special Issue aims to supplement, or relate to, the existing literature by integrating research, demonstrating how renewable energy and low-carbon technologies can be deployed in the organizational management and decision support of circular and sustainable smart production and manufacturing processes. This Special Issue will cover original research and systematic review articles on the above topics.
Dr. George Lazaroiu
Prof. Dr. Dan-Cristian Dabija
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- circular economy
- Industry 4.0
- sustainability practices
- product and service digitalization
- renewable energy and low-carbon technologies
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