Digital transformation: a strategic move towards sustainable growth

Introduction:

Both the growing digital transformation and awareness about sustainability are dramatically changing the business landscape. Digital transformation has emerged as a top priority on leadership agendas and among scholars worldwide. It is typically described as a strategic change using digital technologies that results in changed products and processes, improved customer engagement, and new organisational structures. Digitalisation relies on the convergence of SMAC technologies – social, mobile, analytics and cloud computing – that fuel innovation in society and business. Companies must integrate sustainability strategies into their digital transformation roadmaps across multiple dimensions. Rapid digitalisation provides an opportunity to rethink how we make decisions and apply technology in innovative ways.

For this special issue, we welcome case studies and research findings obtained through theoretical, conceptual, empirical studies and qualitative modelling in the areas of digital transformation that relate to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

Topics covered:

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Digital transformation strategies, practices and processes
• Sustaining and evaluating digital transformations
• Digital transformation and organisational capabilities
• Governance for digital transformations
• Enablers and barriers to managing digitalisation
• Digital technology and energy sustainability
• Smart contract-based electricity markets
• Data-based governance models
• Digital technology as a driver for entrepreneurship and competitiveness
• The impact of digitalisation on flexible learning and teaching methods
• Cryptocurrencies and Non-Fungible Tokens: issues and perspectives
• Blockchain in financial institutions and markets
• Digital transformation of financial services
• Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning application in logistics
• Smart warehouse management and intelligence
• Applications of Metaverse
• Cyber security
• Blockchain and machine learning
• Smart city, AI, Internet of Things and blockchain
• Issues in Bitcoin systems

Important deadlines:

• Submissions close: 25 May 2023
• Notification of review results: 1 August 2023
• Revised manuscripts due: 15 October 2023
• Final decision: 15 December 2023

Submission instructions:

Prospective authors are asked to follow the SUSOC Guide for Authors and submit their papers via the online submission platform; please select “VSI: Digital transformation and sustainability” as the article type. Submitted papers will undergo the usual SUSOC review process.

Guest Editors:

• Anshuman Jaswal, UPES Dehradun, India. Email: anshuman.jaswal@ddn.upes.ac.in
• Ernesto D. R. Santibanez Gonzalez, University of Talca, Chile. Email: santibanez.ernesto@gmail.com
• Jose Arturo Garza-Reyes, The University of Derby, UK. Email: J.Reyes@derby.ac.uk
• Manoj Nallapaneni, Swiss School of Business and Management, Switzerland. Email: mnallapan2-c@my.cityu.edu.hk
• Bharat Bhusan, Sharda University, India. Email: bharat_bhushan1989@yahoo.com
• Vinay Kandpal, UPES Dehradun, India. Email: vkandpal@ddn.upes.ac.in