Cultural and digital collaboration infrastructures as sustainability enhancing factors: A configurational approach

Alessia Zoppelletto and Ludovico Bullini Orlandi

Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2022, vol. 179, issue C

Abstract: This paper aims to shed light on collaborative networks’ role in boosting sustainability at the country level, both in terms of digital infrastructures and cultural factors supporting collaboration. Using three different country-level databases, it investigates how different combinations of cultural factors supporting collaboration and digital infrastructure lead to sustainability performance. Longitudinal data on 16 European countries are analyzed employing fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fs-QCA). The findings suggest that in the presence of high levels of digital and cultural factors that enable collaborative networks, countries also are characterized by high sustainability performance. Furthermore, even in the absence of high levels of cultural factors supporting collaboration, digital infrastructures are sufficient for enhancing sustainability performance.

Keywords: Collaborative networks; Digital transformation; Digital infrastructure; Cultural factors; Sustainability; fs-QCA (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2022.121645

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