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August 22, 2025Strategic Change17 citationsOpen Access

Navigating the Twin Transformation: How Digitalization and Sustainability Shape the Future

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JHJonas HammerschmidtJBJanina BurtscherJGJohanna Gast

Key Points

  • This review reveals critical gaps in twin transformation research, highlighting areas needing further exploration and clarity.
  • Synthesizing findings from 65 articles, the study underscores the need for more sectoral diversity in twin transformation analyses.
  • The study presents a synergy-based framework that captures the dynamic interdependencies between digital transformation and sustainability transformation.
  • Future research directions are outlined, indicating the necessity to optimize the integration of digitalization and sustainability in twin transformation.

Abstract

ABSTRACT Amid growing societal and scholarly interest in the interplay between sustainability transformation (ST) and digital transformation (DT), this study conducts a systematic literature review to advance the understanding of twin transformation (TT). Analyzing 65 peer‐reviewed articles, this review makes three key contributions: (1) It synthesizes the current state of TT research, uncovering critical gaps, including limited sectoral diversity, inconsistent terminology, and the dominance of digitally driven TT perspectives; (2) it proposes a synergy‐based framework illustrating the dynamic interdependencies between DT and ST; (3) proposes an updated definition of TT; and (4) outlines future research directions to deepen the exploration of TT. This study provides a foundational agenda for researchers and practitioners aiming to integrate and optimize the TT of digitalization and sustainability.

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Hammerschmidt et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68af5707ad7bf08b1eadda59https://doi.org/10.1002/jsc.70010
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