Digital Inability and Social Sustainability in the Face of the Fourth Industrial Revolution: A Proposal of New Non-Financial Indicators
| Autor: | Alvaro Guitart Martín, Ricardo J. Palomo Zurdo |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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sustainability indicators
Environmental effects of industries and plants Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment Geography Planning and Development inter- and transdisciplinary sustainability studies TJ807-830 Management Monitoring Policy and Law TD194-195 sustainability strategy Renewable energy sources sustainability business resource management SDGs 2030 non-financial reporting social sustainability digital transformation social taxonomy Environmental sciences GE1-350 |
| Zdroj: | Sustainability; Volume 13; Issue 24; Pages: 13958 Sustainability, Vol 13, Iss 13958, p 13958 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/su132413958 |
| Popis: | In the knowledge economy, financial indicators are not sufficient to predict the evolution of business competitiveness and anticipate risks. This paper proposes new non-financial indicators based on the analysis of eighteen variables representative of the interest of the different stakeholders, which correlate the organization’s commitment to socially sustainable digital transformation and the enhancement of business capabilities. This study, based on a specific adaptation of the IMPACT methodology and carried out in forty countries, obtains as main findings that there are significant differences in the perception of the business impact generated by the improvement of the digital capabilities of the workforce according to variables, such as job level, area of work, cultural area of the interviewee, type of company, or the number of years that digital training programs have been implemented among the workforce, while factors, such as gender or generation of the interviewee, company size, or productive sector, are not determinant. The proposed analysis methodology provides useful indicators for corporate governance bodies to analyze and improve human performance and labor engagement in the face of digitalization, applicable to any type of organization, sector, or country, facilitating the deployment of more economically efficient and socially sustainable transformation programs. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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