Digitalization, Sustainability and Innovation: A Systematic Literature Review

Abstract

This study aims to describe the status and trend of the research, related to digitalization, sustainability and innovation as well as to explore the area of the important keywords and the category of the related theory. First, we explored all articles in the area of social science and business, management and accounting, in terms of those keywords, in the Scopus database which has been published from 2012 to 2021. Second, we used descriptive analysis to describe the research status and trend. Then, a bibliometric analysis, via VOSViewer, was adopted to classify the area of the important keywords, involving the three areas: sustainable business innovation, sustainable manufacturing development and sustainable digital economy. Additionally, a content analysis was applied to categorize the related theory. There are three categories: digital technology, organizational competitiveness and human capital. Hence, the findings of this study provide the guidelines for further research about digitalization, sustainability and innovation.