Abstract

Digitalisation has enabled business organisations to innovate but created ethical and sustainability problems for people in society. This research paper addresses the sustainability and ethical issues raised by digitalisation, synthesises and systematises the bibliometric body of knowledge from 374 publications from the Web of Science (WoS) database to provide insights into how digitalisation can be a force for social good. Our bibliometric analysis from 1991-2020 discovered 5 thematic clusters and coloured them in red: ‘corporate governance’ and ‘performance’; green: ‘state of the art in digital sustainability’; blue: ‘behavioral intentions’; yellow: ‘management planning’ and purple - 'design’, to highlight their distinctiveness as well as their interrelatedness. We discuss the implications of our findings and highlight six contributions to practice and policy developments, namely1) return on investment, 2) environmental sustainability, 3) open technological innovation, 4) the circular economy, 5) energy efficiency and 6) overall