Abstract
Digital transformation refers to the unprecedented disruptions in society, industry, and organizations stimulated by advances in digital technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data analytics, cloud computing, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Presently, there is a lack of studies to map digital transformation in the environmental sustainability domain. This paper identifies the disruptions driven by digital transformation in the environmental sustainability domain through a systematic literature review. The results present a framework that outlines the transformations in four key areas: pollution control, waste management, sustainable production, and urban sustainability. The transformations in each key area are divided into further sub-categories. This study proposes an agenda for future research in terms of organizational capabilities, performance, and digital transformation strategy regarding environmental sustainability.
Highlights
A Review and Research Agenda.Digital transformation is a process driven by digital technologies where disruptions are triggered in organizations, and its impacts are enormous on the organizational value creation, strategy, and structure mechanisms [1]
This paper’s main research question is “What disruptions are taking place in the environmental sustainability domain enabled by digital transformation?” Through a systematic literature review, this paper identifies and categorizes the impacts of digital transformations on environmental sustainability into four areas, namely, waste management, pollution control, sustainable production, and urban sustainability, which in turn are further divided into sub-categories (Figure 3)
We focused on digital technologies included in the SMACIT framework [48], which refers to social, mobile, analytics, cloud and the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, and how they enable disruptions in the environmental sustainability domain
Summary
Digital transformation is a process driven by digital technologies where disruptions are triggered in organizations, and its impacts are enormous on the organizational value creation, strategy, and structure mechanisms [1]. Digital transformation has stimulated new business models and has caused disruptions in the global markets and industry. The shock waves of digital transformation have crashed the traditional businesses, resulting from the entry of digitally savvy firms. We can observe some prominent instances of such in the global market. The hotel industry was radically disrupted by Booking.com and Airbnb [2], revolutionary changes were brought to the music industry by Spotify [3], and the incumbent firms have been transformed, e.g., the digitalization of Starbucks [4]
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