Digitalisation as the Indicator of the Evidence of Sustainability in the European Union

Abstract

Digitalisation provides access to an integrated network of information that can benefit society and businesses. However, the evidence of sustainability in business is less researched. In our paper, by building up the research approach, we address the relevant gap by investigating how sustainable development goals represent the interrelationship between digitalisation and sustainability. Such research is particularly important because understandings of digitalisation and sustainability determine how different actors, including business managers and policymakers, act in response to those imperatives to develop future employees skills starting from school age. Following a multi-method approach, we have combined our analysis into two steps examining the relationship between digitalisation and sustainability. Building digital networks, business managers and policy makers using digital means can create some unique opportunities to strategically address sustainable development challenges for the United Nations Targets (SDG) to ensure higher productivity, education, and an equality-oriented society. This point of view describes the potential of digitalisation for society and businesses of the future. The authors revise the links between digitalisation and sustainability in the European Union countries by using data available in Eurostat and UNECE public databases. The two-stage methodology for the identification of the relationship between ICT and sustainability is used in the paper and a linear regression model is applied. The results showed tiers with five SDGs, focusing on business, and all these tiers are fixed in the constructed equations for each SDG. The recommended solution is statistically valid and proves the novelty of this research. Among digitalisation indicators, only mobile-cellular subscriptions and fixed-broadband sub-basket prices in part do not affect researched sustainable development indicators.

The Interplay between Digitalization and Competitiveness: Evidence from European Countries

“…By employing factor analysis, the hypothesis was validated that two main factors, macroeconomic stability and research and development and digitalization 2 , are significant for strengthening competitiveness in European countries [18]. Digitalization (captured in a simplified manner, using information and communication technology indicators) was considered to provide a view of sustainable competitiveness for a more extensive set of 127 countries [19] and to enhance sustainability by verifying the relationship with five of the sustainable development goals of the United Nations, in the case of European Union countries [20].…”

Katılım Bankacılığı ve Sürdürülebilirlik: Finansal Dönüşümde İkili Etki

“…Dijital bankacılık, geleneksel bankacılığa göre daha az enerji tüketmekte ve daha az karbon salınımına yol açmaktadır. Finansal hizmetlerin verildiği alanların fiziksel varlığı azalırken, dijital platformlar ve çevrimiçi işlemler enerji tasarrufu sağlayarak, çevre üzerinde olumlu bir etki oluşturmakta ve karbon ayak izinin azalmasına katkı sağlamaktadır (Burinskienė ve Seržantė, 2022).…”

The Impact of Digitization to Ensure Competitiveness of the Ha’il Region to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals

“…The authors proved that it is an important indicator for measuring the capabilities of digitalization to determine achieving sustainable development goals. In the same context, several authors [16,[19][20][21] found that digitalization is very important and has a positive impact on sustainable development goals.…”

“…Some researchers have proved that digitalization is an essential factor in achieving sustainable development goals [13,14]. Other studies demonstrate that digitalization is a complementary factor to other goals, especially industry, innovation, and infrastructure, noted as SDG9 [15][16][17]. Based on qualitative and quantitative analyses, [18] examined the relationship between SDGs and the composite index to measure digitalization.…”