Relationship Between Digitalization and Corporate Sustainability: A Literature Review

Abstract

This chapter analyses the relationship between digitalization and sustainability in business environments through a comprehensive systematic literature review. The findings highlight the notable lack of empirical research addressing this convergence in specific, and the exploration available is primarily limited to analyses of existing literature. This scenario opens up a fascinating avenue of possibilities for future research, promoting a more concrete and evidence-based approach that enriches and strengthens these issues understanding. In this sense, the exploration of uncharted terrain is encouraged along with a connection between theory and practice. Therefore, a model encompassing a series of variables and essential terms for a comprehensive sustainability analysis in the business context is proposed, especially in the digitalization field. This model is presented as a framework to enable a robust and holistic analysis between digitalization and sustainability interaction in contemporary business contexts.