Digitalization and Technological Advances: Transforming Management Landscape

Digitalisation, big data, connectivity, and Artificial Intelligence are shaping today's cities around the globe. It has led to increased productivity, competition and inclusion within and across the economies. Further, it has also led to substantial positive impact on the economic growth performance as well as enhance the economic integration, both regional and global. Digitalization has been a prominent channel for the economies in attainment of their Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The advent of COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc and its impact has reached every corner of the world. This has divided the history into a pre-covid and a post-covid world. Digital transformation has been marked as a defining feature of the post-covid world as it has permeated every aspect of our lives. Covid-19 has accelerated the digitalization of societies and economies at an unimaginable pace. From helping governments to implement social protection schemes to enabling e-health and online education, digital technologies have helped business in continuing their operations and trade through e-commerce and digital finance. Thus, it is evident that digitalization and the technologies like Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence are the future, which is not only transforming the management domain but the whole world around us.

In this backdrop, we invite book chapters related to the management and business domains focusing on how digiatlization and advanced technologies are helping in transforming the practices adopted by various organizations.