Orchestrating the Twin Transition in Multinational Corporations: Technology Roadmapping for Green and Digital Global Business Services

Orchestrating the Twin Transition in Multinational Corporations: Technology Roadmapping for Green and Digital Global Business Services

Source: econ.GN updates on arXiv.org — https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.12787 Date read: 2026-06-13 Connected to: none Escalation: store-only Escalation rationale:

What this is

A socio-technical framework paper synthesizing Technology Roadmapping (TRM) with ITU ICT innovation toolkits to analyze how multinational corporations coordinate digital and environmental transformation in Global Business Services (GBS). The work is primarily applied/prescriptive, using bibliometric clustering to map research evolution rather than deriving new mechanisms.

What I took from it

The paper treats GBS as a "living laboratory" for dual systemic change, but remains oriented toward harmonization strategy and organizational design rather than investigating the protocolized or artificial layer of constraint. While it acknowledges socio-technical coupling, it does not examine how digital systems themselves (algorithmic scheduling, resource allocation, governance protocols) generate or encode trade-offs between efficiency and environmental targets—nor whether these trade-offs are intrinsic to the architecture or contingent on design choice.

The bibliometric shift from "basic process automation" suggests awareness that integration has deepened, but the paper does not isolate what new structural properties or failure modes emerge when green and digital mandates are simultaneously protocolized into corporate decision systems. This is organizational case work, not mechanistic investigation of artificial systems.

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