My topic focuses around fully grasping the impact of work digitalization on businesses and how digitalization can help these businesses in a positive way. In order for me to reach saturation I continue to try to find different ways to use different terminology to find articles that are relevant to the information I am searching for.
1st Search:
Database: EBSCO Host
Search: Digitization and Business and Productivity
Limiters: full text, peer reviewed, 2020-2022
Results: 12
Although the results were limited I was able to find one that I thought was very relevant to my topic.
Muhammad Mustafa Kamal (2020) The triple-edged sword of COVID-19: understanding the use of digital technologies and the impact of productive, disruptive, and destructive nature of the pandemic, Information Systems Management, 37:4, 310-317, DOI: 10.1080/10580530.2020.1820634
Annotation #1
This article goes into talking about how much of an impact covid-19 had on business operations and how the usage of technology skyrocketed in order to keep businesses afloat. This information is relevant to my hypothesis, and I will be using this in my paper.
2nd Search
Database: EDP Sciences
Search: Digital Business and Economy
Limiters: full text, peer reviewed, 2019-2021
Results: Refined review articles 71
I decided to mix digital and business together as I have been searching for relevant results that would show information in regards to how digitization affected all types of businesses.
Molotkova, N. V., Khazanova, D. L., & Ivanova, E. V. (2019). Small business in digital economy. SHS Web of Conferences, 62, 04003. https://doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20196204003
Annotation #2
This business focuses around the digitalization of the economic system and how industries were being modernized digitally. It touches about the aspect of small businesses and the structure they try to develop digitally and the overall problems that small business encounter in a digital economy. This article provides some great information on the digital transition of small businesses.
3rd Search
Database: Ebsco Host
Search: Remote Work and Business and Virtual
Limiters: 2020-2021
Results: 1,981, then limiting to peer reviewed and academic journal full text resulted in 15 results.
With this search I wanted to continue to explore the idea of digitalization within a business, I threw in the term virtual as people would usually consider themselves to going virtual when working from home/ online.
Faizurroham, M., Baga. L.M, Jahroh S. (2021). Strategy of business digitalization of micro, small, and medium entreprises (a case study of cultive apparel). Indonesian Journal of Business and Entrepreneurship,.7 ( 3). /DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17358/IJBE.7.3.257
Annotation #3
The three authors of this case study try to look at the digital transformations being carried out on micro, small and medium enterprises. They look at the results and analyze the problems that occur and the conditions during work. I found this article relevant as it is referring to the usage of digitalized work as they mention their transitions to selling online products.
4th Search
Database: Science Direct
Search: Digitization Virtualization and Cloud and Business
Limiters: full text, peer reviewed, 2019-2022
Results: 2,043- 2020 307, research articles 191
With this search I was hoping if I threw the term “cloud” into the search it would bring more I.T related topics on virtualization.
Morteza,G. (2019) Industry 4.0, digitization, and opportunities for sustainability Journal of Cleaner Production, Volume 252,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.119869.
Annotation #4
This article refers to “Industry 4.0” which is essentially the digital revolution of our time and how this may be the era of sustainability due to the new technology movement. This study talks about the design principles and technology trends and touches upon the production efficiency of businesses .
5th Search
Database: GALE ONEFILE
Search: COVID 19 AND Remote Work
Limiters: full text, peer reviewed
Results: 15
This search was to continue to find more relevant sources in regards to business shifting during COVID-19 when digitization became a bigger movement. This search was very limited and not as helpful as other searches.
Lemaire, Alice. “BHL and the Pandemic: An accelerator of digital advances and transformation.” Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, no. 16, 7 Sept. 2021. Gale OneFile: Information Science, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A674569823/PPIS?u=klnb_fhsuniv&sid=bookmark-PPIS&xid=0a159200.
Annotation #5
This article shows the implementation of a digitzation program after the sudden COVID-19 pandemic, this focuses more on a library then a business but the article mentions the struggles they faced when first needing to digitize and increase production.
Saturation
The past few assignments have been a tremendous help in helping me gain a better understanding of how to work the databases better in terms of how to find more relevant resources for my paper. I have found that the most useful resource has mainly been EBSCO host for my topic as it was a lot easier to find relevant information during searches. Although EBSCO host has been a big help to me databases such as Sciencedirect, GoGale, have provided me with a handful of articles. After gaining a better idea of using the databases I know that I am near saturation.
