Ethical aspects of digitalization: Corporate digital responsibility
Management in the Digital Era: Different Perspectives, NOVA Publications , ss.131-150, 2023
- Yayın Türü: Kitapta Bölüm / Araştırma Kitabı
- Basım Tarihi: 2023
- Yayınevi: NOVA Publications
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.131-150
- Anahtar Kelimeler: Corporate digital responsibility, Digitalization, Ethical dilemmas
- Uşak Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
Digitalization radically changes both our social and business live. The volume, speed, and variety of data have increased today with the spread of personal computers, mobile phones, internet access, online shopping, social media, electronic communication, smart machines, vehicles, and buildings. Adaptation to digital technologies has made each individual and objects "a data producer and data user. " In today's world, where digitalization is increasing rapidly and data is in huge quantities, organizations try to transform data into production, competitive advantage, and profitability by going it through the stages of obtaining, recording, storing, classifying, and analyzing. However, these efforts also bring ethical dilemmas. Although the use of digital technologies provides significant benefits to both organizations and customers, it also carries risks such as the manipulation of personal data and privacy violations. In addition, the exponential development of technology makes legal regulations on this subject insufficient. For that reason, organizations need to undertake a new digital responsibility that is different from corporate social responsibility beyond legal regulations. This responsibility is conceptualized in the literature as "corporate digital responsibility. " Corporate digital responsibility is a set of principles that organizations voluntarily commit to implement to ensure the ethical and responsible development, practice, and use of digital technologies. The concept of corporate digital responsibility that emphasizes the ethical aspect of digitalization is tried to be explained in this part. The recommendations for corporate digital responsibility practices are presented in the conclusion part.