Sustainability in the digital age: Intended and unintended consequences of digital technologies for sustainable development

Bohnsack, René; Bidmon, Christina; Pinkse, Jonatan

doi:10.1002/bse.2938

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“…Finally, while an increasing digitalization of companies might, indeed, be an important factor in facilitating a shift to more sustainable production and consumption patterns, it needs to be noted that the use of DTs may also lead to negative environmental impacts and induce rebound effects and/or trade-offs (Bohnsack et al, 2021;Itten et al, 2020). However, this goes beyond the scope of this study but other articles focus on the quantitative sustainability impacts of DTs, e.g., (Berkhout and Hertin, 2004;Ingemarsdotter et al, 2021;Itten et al, 2020).…”

Section: Advancing the Use Of Digital Technologies For A Sustainable ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Implementation of digital technologies for a circular economy and sustainability management in the manufacturing sector

Schöggl

Rusch

Stumpf

et al. 2023

Sustainable Production and Consumption

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Section: Advancing the Use Of Digital Technologies For A Sustainable ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Implementation of digital technologies for a circular economy and sustainability management in the manufacturing sector

Schöggl

Rusch

Stumpf

et al. 2023

Sustainable Production and Consumption

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“…While digital technologies may drive outcomes of BMfS (Di Maria et al, 2022), break path-dependent behavior (Bohnsack et al, 2021), and enable more sustainable development, they can also create new challenges. For instance, BMfS based on digital technologies may not be able to be adopted in geographies that lack the necessary digital infrastructure (Ciulli & Kolk, 2023), create unintended consequences (Bohnsack et al, 2022), and, with the latest advances in artificial intelligence (AI), will have an increasing influence on the agency of users. Future studies should explore how digital transformation influences the BMfS change processes outlined in our framework.…”

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The Organizational Dynamics of Business Models for Sustainability: Discursive and Cognitive Pathways for Change

Pinkse¹,

Lüdeke‐Freund

Laasch

et al. 2023

Organization & Environment

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Business models for sustainability (BMfS) enable organizations to create social and environmental value for a wide variety of stakeholders. As BMfS are new for well-established industries, their implementation requires deep organizational change to overcome path dependencies of existing business models. In this article, we present a framework which outlines the organizational change process involved in BMfS development. The framework shows that organizations can experiment with novel configurations of value, resources, and transactions, and follow discursive and cognitive pathways to enable BMfS legitimization and implementation. Although the value, resources, and transactions levers can be used either separately or in concert, discursive and cognitive pathways are most powerful when pursued together. We use our framework to highlight the contributions of the articles in the special issue and to propose new directions for BMfS research. We argue that future research should investigate the impacts of BMfS on the sustainability challenges they seek to address.

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“…Yet, with sustainability and climate change adaptation and mitigation climbing high on the policy agenda, combined with the ambitions of the new paradigm for agriculture and the use of agricultural technologies (also known as "agriculture 4.0"), one may expect this to change in the coming years. Choices made in the process of designing technologies, solutions, and digital and automation ecosystems will likely determine the impact of those changes on smallholder farming systems (Bohnsack, Bidmon and Pinkse, 2021;McCampbell et al, 2021).…”

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Agricultural digitalization and automation in low- and middle-income countries: Evidence from ten case studies

2022

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Sustainability in the digital age: Intended and unintended consequences of digital technologies for sustainable development

Cited by 66 publications

References 20 publications

Implementation of digital technologies for a circular economy and sustainability management in the manufacturing sector

Implementation of digital technologies for a circular economy and sustainability management in the manufacturing sector

The Organizational Dynamics of Business Models for Sustainability: Discursive and Cognitive Pathways for Change

Agricultural digitalization and automation in low- and middle-income countries: Evidence from ten case studies

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