Does digitalisation enable small and medium-sized enterprises to become more sustainable?

Environmental sustainability is currently of paramount importance worldwide. In thiscontext, digitalisation has emerged as a transformative force in the business world,and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) need to adapt to sustainability anddigitalisation without neglecting performance. The...

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Autores: Trueba Castaneda, Laura, Somohano Rodríguez, Francisco M.|||0000-0003-4628-999X, Torre Olmo, Begoña|||0000-0001-6081-9868
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Cantabria (UC)
Repositorio:UCrea Repositorio Abierto de la Universidad de Cantabria
Idioma:inglés
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10902/38214
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Digitalisation
Efficiency
Performance
SDGs
SMEs
Sustainability
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Does digitalisation enable small and medium-sized enterprises to become more sustainable?
title Does digitalisation enable small and medium-sized enterprises to become more sustainable?
spellingShingle Does digitalisation enable small and medium-sized enterprises to become more sustainable?
Trueba Castaneda, Laura
Digitalisation
Efficiency
Performance
SDGs
SMEs
Sustainability
title_short Does digitalisation enable small and medium-sized enterprises to become more sustainable?
title_full Does digitalisation enable small and medium-sized enterprises to become more sustainable?
title_fullStr Does digitalisation enable small and medium-sized enterprises to become more sustainable?
title_full_unstemmed Does digitalisation enable small and medium-sized enterprises to become more sustainable?
title_sort Does digitalisation enable small and medium-sized enterprises to become more sustainable?
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Trueba Castaneda, Laura
Somohano Rodríguez, Francisco M.|||0000-0003-4628-999X
Torre Olmo, Begoña|||0000-0001-6081-9868
author Trueba Castaneda, Laura
author_facet Trueba Castaneda, Laura
Somohano Rodríguez, Francisco M.|||0000-0003-4628-999X
Torre Olmo, Begoña|||0000-0001-6081-9868
author_role author
author2 Somohano Rodríguez, Francisco M.|||0000-0003-4628-999X
Torre Olmo, Begoña|||0000-0001-6081-9868
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author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Universidad de Cantabria
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Digitalisation
Efficiency
Performance
SDGs
SMEs
Sustainability
topic Digitalisation
Efficiency
Performance
SDGs
SMEs
Sustainability
description Environmental sustainability is currently of paramount importance worldwide. In thiscontext, digitalisation has emerged as a transformative force in the business world,and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) need to adapt to sustainability anddigitalisation without neglecting performance. The objective of the study is to estab-lish the connection between the positive financial outcomes resulting from digitalcapabilities and the ability of SMEs to become environmentally sustainable. Addition-ally, a theoretical framework has been developed to explain the results from the anal-ysis of a reflexive structural equation model using data collected from 975 SpanishSMEs. The results indicate that investing in digitalisation allows companies tobecome more environmentally responsible and achieve qualitative growth in terms ofreputation. Furthermore, digitalisation promotes quantitative growth throughimproved efficiency, cost savings, enhanced product quality and increased customersatisfaction. Lastly, the study model demonstrates that profitable companies are more likely to be sustainable.
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