Industrial Digital Transformation: Sustainable Challenges for SMEs
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 29 December 2025 | Viewed by 35
Special Issue Editors
Interests: digital economy; corporate innovation; responsibility and sustainable management
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue aims to bring together innovative theories on the sustainable development of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the era of digital economy, with a particular focus on how SMEs can leverage digital technologies to enhance energy efficiency and promote low-carbon sustainable development. This encourages wisdom from various disciplines of management, economics, environmental science, sociology, and more, with a focus on providing insights for SMEs to address sustainability challenges in the digital age. As a representative digital technology, artificial intelligence poses greater challenges to the sustainable development of SMEs, including employment challenges, market threats, organizational management difficulties, etc. These issues are also of interest to this Special Issue.
This encourages the submission of case studies that focus on specific companies, provided they are representative and yield general insights. It also welcomes empirical analyses of SMEs’ sustainable practices, using public data such as the World Bank's Enterprise Survey database, as well as author survey data. However, bibliometric articles are not encouraged in this Special Issue.
Dr. Huwei Wen
Dr. Xuan-Hoa Nghiem
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- enterprise innovation
- digitalization
- low-carbon innovation
- ESG
- green behavior
- energy performance
- SMEs
- AI
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