Introduction [to Sustainable Transition of Meat and Cured Meat Supply Chain. A Transdisciplinary Approach]

Sustainability and sustainable development are now benchmark concepts in business administration and management. Despite the increasingly widespread familiarity with these concepts, for many companies, especially small and medium-sized ones, it is still unclear the benefit that adopting a sustainable strategy could bring and above all the real extent of the investment required, in financial, organisational, human and relational terms. Moreover, the legal instruments through which such a strategy could be implemented and the tax benefits that could derive from it are sometimes not very well understood, especially in light of the forthcoming regula-tory interventions aimed at facilitating such paths, also in connection with the use of EU funds. Taking as its reference, the articulation of research topics of interest for Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, and in particular the topic about the redefini-tion of development models oriented towards a sustainable and inclusive economic and financial system, the VIS—Valore Impresa Sostenibile (Sustainable Company Value) project set out to develop and implement a self-assessment model for sustainable innovation and change in companies in the cured meat supply chain.