Digital Sustainability and Entrepreneurship: How Digital Innovations Are Helping Tackle Climate Change and Sustainable Development
By Gerard George, R. Merrill, Simon J. D. Schillebeeckx. Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice, 2020
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We explore how digital technologies are helping address grand challenges to tackle climate change and promote sustainable development. With digital technologies, entrepreneurial organizations have adopted innovative approaches to tackle seemingly intractable societal challenges. We refer to these broadly as digital sustainability activities. By focusing on the digital toolbox employed by pioneering organizations, we propose a research agenda that generates novel questions for entrepreneurship, business models, and ecosystems as well as new ways of thinking about trust and institutional logics. We believe that digital sustainability can spur empirical advances in entrepreneurship, innovation, and strategy with potential for positive impact on society.
Subfields: Business and International Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, Marketing
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- Digital Business Model, Digital Transformation, Digital Entrepreneurship: Is There A Sustainable “Digital”? (2020, background): “The concept of a circular economy supports firms in operationalizing sustainable developments, which can be fostered through “digital” [72,73]: Through digital business models, potentially alongside intermediary integration where unavoidable, supply chains are enabled to reduce parts needed and to a”
- Climate change and COP26: Are digital technologies and information management part of the problem or the solution? An editorial reflection and call to action (2022, background): “Exponential technologies such as AI and ML have the potential to combat climate change (George et al., 2021).”