MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Corporate Responsibility in the Digital Era

Corporate digital responsibility spans four areas — social, economic, technological, and environmental — that should be merged under one organizational umbrella.

Sustainability and digitization have been two of the most significant global business trends over the past several years. Sustainability concerns humanity’s relationship with the natural world, while digitization focuses on the virtual world. Lacking obvious common roots, they have developed more or less independently of each other, but it’s time for these two worlds to merge.

About the Author

Michael Wade (@mwade100) is a professor of innovation and strategy at the IMD business school and coauthor of Orchestrating Transformation: How to Deliver Winning Performance With a Connected Approach to Change.

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