Digital sustainability: tackling climate change with bits and bytes

摘要: Climate change is one of the biggest challenges of our times (Daddi et al., 2018; Etzion et al., 2017; Nyberg & Wright, 2022). More and more firms tackle this challenge with sustainability management, systematic firm-wide actions to advance a firms’ sustainability (Delmas et al., 2019; George et al., 2015; Starik & Kanashiro, 2013). Recently, scholars have pointed towards the potential of leveraging various digital technologies for sustainability management (Frenken & Fuenfschilling, 2020; George & Schillebeeckx, 2021; George et al., 2020). Amongst the examples are big data analytics (Espinoza & Aronczyk, 2021; Etzion & Aragon-Correa, 2016), digital twins (Kulathinal et al., 2020), online communities to promote and develop sustainable products and services (Majchrzak & Malhotra, 2020; Porter et al., 2020; Vernay & Sebi, 2020), blockchain-based transparency (Bai et al., 2020; Upadhyay et al., 2021), and …