As companies increasingly adopt digital technologies, so they face a new set of responsibilities. These corporate digital responsibilities embrace people, the economy, and the planet, and can be simply defined as making sure the new technologies, and the data they generate and transmit, are wisely used.
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Corporate Digital Responsibility: Approaches of the Leading IT Companies
Peter Jones (University of Gloucestershire, UK) and Daphne Comfort (University of Gloucestershire, UK)
Copyright: © 2022
|Pages: 18
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7712-7.ch013
Abstract
Digital technology is reshaping businesses across much of the world, but as companies introduce digital technologies into their business activities, they are facing new sets of responsibilities. While many businesses have enthusiastically embraced the economic benefits of these digital technologies, the social and environmental impacts of these developments have received much less attention. With this in mind, this chapter reviews how the leading information technology companies publicly address their social and environmental responsibilities. The chapter includes an outline of digital technologies and their potential social dimensions and environmental impacts, a brief review of the emerging academic and professional literature to provide some reference and context for the review, details of the method of enquiry and frame of reference adopted by the authors, a review of how the leading information technology companies publicly reported on their social and environmental digital responsibilities, and some general reflections on these social and environmental responsibilities.