The Interaction between Internet, Sustainable Development, and Emergence of Society 5.0

Vasja Roblek, Maja Meško, Mirjana Pejić Bach, Oshane Thorpe and Polona Šprajc
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Maja Meško: Faculty of Management, University of Primorska, 6000 Koper, Slovenia
Mirjana Pejić Bach: Faculty of Economics, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Oshane Thorpe: College of Media and Mass Communication at the American University in the Emirates, Dubai 503000, UAE
Polona Šprajc: Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Maribor, 4000 Kranj, Slovenia

Data, 2020, vol. 5, issue 3, 1-27

Abstract: (1) Background: The importance of this article is to analyze the technological developments in the field of the Internet and Internet technologies and to determine their significance for sustainable development, which will result in the emergence of Society 5.0. (2) The authors used automated content analysis for the analysis of 552 articles published in 306 scientific journals indexed by SCII and/or SCI - EXPANDED (Web of Science (WOS) platform). The goal of the research was to present the relationship between the Internet and sustainable development. (3) Results: The results of the analysis show that the top four most important themes in the selected journals were “development”, “information”, “data”, and “business and services”. (4) Conclusions: Our research approach emphasizes the importance of the culmination of scientific innovation with the conceptual, technological and contextual frameworks of the Internet and Internet technology usage and its impact on sustainable development and the emergence of the Society 5.0.

Keywords: Internet; Society 5.0; sustainable development; automated content analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C8 C80 C81 C82 C83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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