The environmental footprint of the companies’ digital technology. How can a company leverage its own digital ecosystem to reduce its environmental footprint and achieve digital sobriety? / Laurène POSNIC / 2021

Titre : The environmental footprint of the companies’ digital technology. How can a company leverage its own digital ecosystem to reduce its environmental footprint and achieve digital sobriety? Type de document : Mémoire Auteurs : Laurène POSNIC, Auteur Année de publication : 2021 Importance : 39 p. Note générale : Pour accéder aux fichiers PDF, merci de vous identifier sur le catalogue avec votre compte Office 365 via le bouton CONNEXION en haut de page. Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Entreprise DIGITAL Management ENVIRONNEMENT ; TECHNOLOGIE ; TRANSITION ENERGETIQUE Résumé : This academic theoretical paper provides a particular perspective of the environmental footprint with regards to the digital transformation within companies. By defining concepts and explaining this phenomenon based on the study of numerous research studies, this paper examines the environmental impacts of digital technologies, both products and services, in terms of nature (greenhouse gas emissions and especially CO₂, energy and rare materials consumption) and intensity. A mapping of these impacts then underlines that the effects are mixed but tend to be more harmful than beneficial for the environment, especially because of some “rebound” effects and the difficulty in estimating them (Beier et al., 2020). More worryingly, the rapid and growing evolution of these impacts does not allow for a sustainable digital transformation that is compatible with the ecological transition, and particularly the energy transition. The combined complexity and importance of this thorny issue in the context of the ecological crisis and COP21’ objectives clearly highlight the need to resolve it, hence forming the motivation of this study. And because the scope and challenges are global, the companies’ response, as largely responsible actors, must be just as global. If the findings show that digital sustainability’ measures are on the path, they are still very poor or missing in companies (Kunkel & Matthess, 2020). This paper therefore goes further in the synthesis of the research carried out by proposing a methodological and operational framework to adopt the approach of “digital sobriety” in companies’ governance and culture and deploy it effectively and efficiently through a set of best practices. Programme : MSc Global Management Permalink : https://cataloguelibrary.neoma-bs.fr/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=536784