One of the most complex issues companies must face in their sustainable development is dealing with the concept of economic sustainability. Economic sustainability is recognised as the ability of surviving and keep creating value for the company’s shareholders and all the other stakeholders involved in the value chain. Starting from this definition, the project team...Read More

The topic of economic sustainability is complex, but the project team tried to tackle it by applying Life Cycle Costing in a ceramic manufacturing context. With the paper “Adaptive Life Cycle Costing (LCC) Modeling and Applying to Italy Ceramic Tile Manufacturing Sector: Its Implication of Open Innovation”, the team proposes two theoretical models and an...Read More