Driving sustainability and creativity at work: A review of the role of digital transformation, leadership, and culture

Abstract

This study examines how digital transformation is relevant in promoting sustainable working practices and increasing the creativity of employees in organizations. Although there is an increasing use of digital technologies, there is scant research that has taken the interrelation between sustainability, leadership, and organizational culture in motivating workplace innovation, hence generating a research gap. To eliminate this, our study uses a systematic literature review (SLR) approach, which examines 78 peer-reviewed articles (collected through the Scopus database) with the help of structured search strings and the PRISMA instructions. The results indicate that digital transformation, which is helped by artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, and the Internet of Things (IoT), can positively impact employee innovation but is not implemented effectively due to obstacles like financial limitations, the absence of technologies, and resistance to change. Paper makes a theoretical contribution to the field of sustainability and digital transformation by combining both to create a combined concept of employee innovation, and a practical contribution through providing organizations with ideas on how they can create sustainable digital strategies. The study has weaknesses in its use of secondary data and limited database selection. The empirical methods should be used in future studies to confirm these results in various organizational settings.