The Sustainable Digitalization in the Manufacturing Industry: A Bibliometric Analysis and Research Trend

Table 4

Literature review in terms of information society construction.

Articles	Main points
Weill and Vitale [26]	Defined the contents of IT and illustrated its impact on business models, and proved the active effect of IT on business support.
Kraemer et al. [27]	Studied Dell’s case and proposed a new mechanism of IT, which helped reduce costs, update the speed of production, and enhance the competition and attractiveness.
Zhu [3]	Empirically proved the positive correlation between IT infrastructure and the e-commerce development in the retailer sector.
Saraf et al. [28]	Proved two major roles for IT on relationships between companies, that is, upstream-downstream production processes and knowledge management.
Chryssolouris et al. [29]	Discussed several technologies in the digital factory and manufacturing concepts, and supported that digital manufacturing was beneficial for time and cost reduction, customization, quality improvement, etc.
Westerman et al. [30]	Illustrated the necessity of transforming manufacturing processes through digitization and proved that the development lifecycle is decreased by 30% after digitalization.
Hanelt et al. [31]	Conducted a rigorous analysis of digital transformation for traditional physical industries, and illustrated several barriers for digitizing automotive products.
Martin [32]	Proved the enhancement of productivity in manufacturing with the growth of IT.
Ziemba [33]	Empirically studied the correlation between IT adoption in enterprises and the improvement of sustainable information society.
Castelo-Branco et al. [34]	Offered evidence about how digital infrastructure in the manufacturing sector and big data capabilities coexist.