Publication: Three essays on digitalization
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2023-10
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2023-12-111
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Abstract
This doctoral thesis comprises three chapters on firms’ digital transformation
consequences. In chapter one, we analyze how digitalization, specifically investment in
information technology assets and R&D, affects employment levels in the context of
European companies in 2015 and 2016. In the second chapter, we continue the analysis
of the employment effects of digitalization through the analysis of the relationship
between firms’ digitalization focus and their workforce restructuring decisions in US
public companies between 2002 and 2016. Finally, chapter three addresses the
relationship between firms’ digitalization focus, environmental best practices and
controversies, and how they affect financial performance framed in US-listed
companies between 2000 and 2019. These three essays help us better understand
digitalization’s consequences on two key social concerns, employment and the
environment, allowing the design of policies that help companies to digitally transform
their business while caring for society and the planet.
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Mención Internacional en el título de doctor
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Digitalization, Employment, IT investment, R&D, SME, Innovation, Mass layoffs, Strategic human capital, Content analysis, Corporate restructuring, Environment, Firm performance, Sustainability, Greenwashing