This bachelor thesis seeks to explore the convergence between sustainability and digitalization within the corporate business sector. As these two trends continue to grow and merge they change how organisations work, communicate and how they are structured. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate how the correlation between digitalization and sustainability works and how it can be useful to strengthen the organisations effort in terms of sustainability.  

In order to examine this we used two questions: “How is corporate sustainability work affected by digitalization”? and “How can digitalization be utilized to enhance these efforts”? To analyze this we have used a theoretical framework combined with a qualitative approach combined with interviews. The theory provides us with guidance on how to analyze how digitalization is used as a strategic resource and how the organisations can adapt to external changes and how they work to live up to regulations like the Corporate Reporting Directive. We have gathered primary data from interviews with large listed companies from Nasdaq. This sample allows us to compare our results from different sectors such as banking and more traditional industrial companies. The results say that digitalization is a necessity for reliable and efficient sustainability work, through automation and more efficient processes makes the data collection and the traceability both easier and dependable. We have also found that it comes with certain difficulties, mostly in terms of implementation challenges like systematical integration and changes in the culture within the organisation.