Special Issue "Digital Transformation and Sustainability: Enabling the Digital Enterprise"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Management".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2022.

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Maro Vlachopoulou
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Department of Applied Informatics, School of Information Sciences, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki 54636, Greece
Interests: information systems and E-business; E-mobile marketing; social media marketing; social networks; ICT innovation
Prof. Dr. Michael Bourlakis
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Research for Cranfield School of Management, Centre of Logistics, Procurement and Supply Chain Management, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedford MK43 0AL, UK
Interests: food supply chain management; retail supply chain management; sustainability in supply chains; IT/E-business and supply chain management
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Assoc. Prof. Dr. Efthymios Constantinides
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Faculty of Behavioral, Management and Social Sciences (BMS), Department Entrepreneurship and Technology Management, The University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE, Enschede, The Netherlands
Interests: digital transformation; digital marketing; big data and consumer neuroscience (or neuromarketing) artificial intelligence; internet of things

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

In this new age of technology revolution, digital transformation is the new way of doing business by leveraging digital technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Cloud, Big Data, Internet of Things, Mobile connectivity and Analytics, but also Augmented and virtual reality, resulting in significant changes in customer experience, business processes, and business models, and reshaping every industry across the globe.

Industry structures and business models are being disrupted, digital opportunities for retail are emerging,  and the digitalization of the economy is being rapidly accelerated. An estimated 70% of new value created in the economy over the next decade will be based on digitally enabled platform business models. Since our planet is facing critical challenges such as climate change, natural disasters and other environmental risks, digitization can play a significant role in doing business more sustainable, having a significant impact in terms of the environmental, social, and economic footprints.

This Special Issue will examine the link between digital transformation and sustainability and will focus on the rise of new digital trends, the importance of digitization to support more sustainable operations and the effects of shaping the future of the digital enterprise. In this Special Issue, we are seeking to address research questions on topics including but not limited to disruptive digital technologies and actor-guided organizational transformation of capabilities, structures, processes and business model components in all industries.

Prof. Dr. Maro Vlachopoulou
Prof. Dr. Michael Bourlakis
Dr. Efthymios Constantinides
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Keywords

  • digital transformation
  • digital disruption
  • technological disruption (blockchain, artificial intelligence, cloud, big data, internet of things, mobile connectivity and analytics, augmented and virtual reality)
  • customer experience
  • business processes
  • suistanable business models
  • digital entrepreneurship
  • digital marketing
  • circular economy
  • waste management
  • green economy & growth

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Has Digital Financial Inclusion Narrowed the Urban-Rural Income Gap: The Role of Entrepreneurship in China
Sustainability 2021, 13(15), 8292; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13158292 - 24 Jul 2021
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The combination of digital technology and finance has brought about a new development model for financial inclusion. What impact will it have on the current imbalance in the distribution of financial resources and the urban-rural income gap in China? To answer this question, [...] Read more.
The combination of digital technology and finance has brought about a new development model for financial inclusion. What impact will it have on the current imbalance in the distribution of financial resources and the urban-rural income gap in China? To answer this question, this paper uses relevant data from 2014–2018 to study the impact of digital inclusive finance on the urban-rural income gap from the theory of financial exclusion, and analyzes the transmission of digital inclusive finance through alleviating financial exclusion, widening financing channels and helping residents with entrepreneurial spirit to start their own businesses, thus increasing jobs, raising the income of rural residents and reducing the urban-rural income gap. The conclusions are as follows: (1) digital inclusive finance can significantly converge the urban-rural income gap; (2) among the dimensions of digital inclusive finance, only the breadth of coverage can significantly reduce the urban-rural income gap, while the effects of depth of use and digitalization are not significant; (3) digital inclusive finance can alleviate the urban-rural income gap through the transmission mechanism of promoting residents’ entrepreneurship; (4) the worse the regional economic development and education, the better the effect of digital inclusive finance on the urban-rural income gap. This paper combines the above results to propose corresponding policy recommendations. Full article
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