How digital transformation improves corporate environmental management: A review and research agenda
Open Access
- 11 August 2022
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Frontiers Media SA in Frontiers in Environmental Science
Abstract
Digital technologies offer opportunities and challenges for corporate environmental management (CEM). In this paper, we provide an overview of the literature on the relationship between digital transformation (DT) and CEM using a systematic review approach in the Antecedents, Decisions, and Outcomes (ADO) format. We review 181 papers published in almost 30 years from 1997 to 2022 and identify studies and areas where DT has impacted on CEM. We find that the literature examining the DT-CEM relationship has surged since 2019 and is concentrated in areas such as green sustainable science technology and environmental sciences. Further, we analyze the economic consequences of DT, the drivers of CEM, and the mechanisms of DT on CEM. Based on the literature analysis, we find that there is still a large gap in the literature studying the mediators and moderators of the DT-CEM relationship. Further, we find that firms with DT have better responsiveness and improved CEM by using digital resources to accurately capture the demands of different stakeholders on the environment. Finally, we provide a research framework and possible research directions, and propose corresponding management insights and policy recommendations.Keywords
Funding Information
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (72173057 71672077 7211101263)
- Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (2021A1515011536)
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (19JNKY08)
This publication has 113 references indexed in Scilit:
- Policies for Enhancing Corporate Environmental Management: a Framework and an Applied ExampleBusiness Strategy and the Environment, 2012
- The Chinese Government's Formal Institutional Influence On Corporate Environmental ManagementPublic Management Review, 2010
- Beyond Corporate Environmental Management to a Consideration of Nature in Visionary Small EnterpriseBusiness & Society, 2010
- Morals or Economics? Institutional Investor Preferences for Corporate Social ResponsibilityJournal of Business Ethics, 2009
- Exploring the moderating effect of financial performance on the relationship between corporate environmental responsibility and institutional investors: some Egyptian evidenceCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 2008
- The oil industry along the Atlantic coast of Cameroon: Assessing impacts and possible solutionsResources Policy, 2007
- Assessing corporate environmental risk in China: an evaluation of reporting activities of Hong Kong listed enterprisesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 2005
- The dynamic resource‐based view: capability lifecyclesStrategic Management Journal, 2003
- Is environmental degradation an inevitable consequence of economic growth: tunneling through the environmental Kuznets curveEcological Economics, 1999
- Environmental business strategy: Corporate leaders’ perceptionsSociety & Natural Resources, 1998