Martínez Ros, EsterGarcía Romanos, Jesús2024-07-312024-07-312023-102023-12-11https://hdl.handle.net/10016/44227Mención Internacional en el título de doctorThis 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.eng© Jesús García RomanosAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 InternationalDigitalizationEmploymentIT investmentR&DSMEInnovationMass layoffsStrategic human capitalContent analysisCorporate restructuringEnvironmentFirm performanceSustainabilityGreenwashingdoctoralThesisO33J23J24C23033J63C33O44Q50embargoed access