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Quantitative Assessment of Product-Service System Sustainability: A Literature Review

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Advances in Production Management Systems. Production Management Systems for Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous Environments (APMS 2024)

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The adoption of Product Service Systems (PSS) offers an innovative perspective to promote sustainability. However, assessing the overall impact of PSS requires an accurate evaluation of their economic, environmental and social implications. Specifically, there is a need to quantify these impacts. Therefore, this study focuses on the analysis of quantitative methods and methodologies to assess the sustainability of PSS solutions, considering the economic, environmental and social dimensions of the Triple Bottom Line (TBL). Through a literature review, the different quantitative methods and methodologies were analysed and the main economic, environmental and social sustainability indicators evaluated by them were collected and discussed. The review shed light on five aspects (i.e., life cycle perspective, stochasticity, TBL comprehensiveness, TBL interdependencies, and interpretation of the results) that are critical for a comprehensive and holistic assessment of PSS sustainability. These aspects are widely discussed and future research directions for the PSS sustainability assessment are suggested.

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Acknowledgments

This paper was supported by the project National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP), Mission 4 Component 2 Investment 1.3 – Call for tender (341 of 15/03/2022 of Italian Ministry of University and Research funded by the European Union (NextGenerationEU), Award Number PE00000004, Concession Decree (1551 of 11/10/2022 adopted by the Italian Ministry of University and Research, CUP F13C22001230001 MICS (Made in Italy – Circular and Sustainable). This work also contributes to the advances of the Erasmus + Project CoDEMO – Co-Creative Decision-Makers for 5.0 Organizations (Project Nr. 101104819).

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Arioli, V., Sala, R., Pirola, F., Pezzotta, G. (2024). Quantitative Assessment of Product-Service System Sustainability: A Literature Review. In: Thürer, M., Riedel, R., von Cieminski, G., Romero, D. (eds) Advances in Production Management Systems. Production Management Systems for Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous Environments. APMS 2024. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 732. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-71637-9_14

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