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Description: Der Einfluss der Digitalisierung auf Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft ist omnipräsent und kann nicht losgelöst von der Debatte zur nachhaltigen Entwicklung betrachtet werden. Vor dem Hintergrund von Industrie 4.0 bietet das betriebliche Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement (BNM) besonderes Potenzial, sich den Themen nachhaltiges Wirtschaften und Digitalisierung aus Perspektive der Unternehmen zu nähern. Ein digitalisiertes Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement in industriellen Unternehmen mit Informationen zu unterstützen, bedarf jedoch einer Durchgängigkeit von Informationen. Um diese zu erreichen und zugleich Informationen aus verschiedenen Disziplinen zu integrieren, sind Methoden der Wissensrepräsentation geeignet. Aktuelle Herausforderungen und Ansätze für die Entwicklung eines offenen und konzeptionellen BNM-Modells werden in diesem Beitrag vorgestellt.

Description: Purpose – This paper provides a systematization of the existing body of literature on both employee participation goals and the intervention formats in the context of organizational change. Furthermore, degrees of employee involvement that the intervention formats address are identified and related to the goals of employee participation. On this basis, determinants of employee involvement and participation in the context of digital transformation are unveiled. Design/methodology/approach – Based on a systematic literature review the authors structure and relate employee participation goals and formats. Through a workshop with expert practitioners, the authors transfer and enhance these theoretical findings in the context of digital transformation. Experts rated the three most important goals and identified accompanying success factors, barriers and effects. Findings – The results show that it is not necessarily the degree of involvement but a context-specific selection of measures, the quality of their implementation as well as the actual uptake of suggestions and activities developed by employees that contribute to employees accepting and participating in goal-directed transformations. Moreover, employees must have sufficient information and time for their participation in transformation processes. Originality/value – This paper is based on a transformative approach, combining literature analysis to identify formats and goals of employee participation with experiential knowledge of digital transformation practitioners. In addition to relating intervention formats to goals pursued in organizational change processes, empirical and experiential perspectives are used to identify three very relevant goals and respective determinants in digital transformation processes.

Description: Industry 4.0 has had a strong influence on the debate on the digitalization of industrial processes, despite being criticized for lacking a proper definition. However, Industry 4.0 might offer a huge chance to align the goals of a sustainable development with the ongoing digital transformation in industrial development. The main contribution of this paper is therefore twofold. We provide a de-facto definition of the concept “Industry 4.0” from a sociotechnical perspective based on its most often cited key features, as well as a thorough review of how far the concept of sustainability is incorporated in it.