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The Scope of Digital Transformation in Sustainability

In: Digital and Sustainable Transformations in a Post-COVID World

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  • Guillermo J. Larios-Hernandez

    (Universidad Anáhuac México)

Abstract

The promise of digital transformation (DT) in sustainability is contingent on organizations’ decisions to exploit digitalization to derive meaningful information and act on the consequences of activities that disturb our natural and social environment, affecting processes and business models. In that regard, the organizational mindset and not technology determines the direction of such transformation, delimiting the scope of sustainability. Based on a critical analysis of scholarly literature, this chapter postulates theoretical observations that frame the scope of DT in sustainability, discussing how and to what extent the constructs that explain DT match the theoretical presuppositions of sustainability. Consequently, it develops a conceptual framework that integrates complementary perspectives of DT based on a dual understanding of reality to characterize aggregate attributes contextualized in terms of sustainability. The chapter ends with a call for further consideration about sustainability implications beyond short-term business profits, inviting firms to embrace a long-term interest in the DT-sustainability nexus.

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  • Guillermo J. Larios-Hernandez, 2023. "The Scope of Digital Transformation in Sustainability," Springer Books, in: Salvador Estrada (ed.), Digital and Sustainable Transformations in a Post-COVID World, chapter 0, pages 43-72, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-16677-8_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-16677-8_2
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