Digitization and sustainability : practical convergences of two leading discussions in business law

Until now, digitization and sustainability have stood side by side in the discussion of business law. As leading discourses of the present-day business scene, both topics are leading to profound change in companies and are influencing each other in the process - a circumstance that can no longer be ignored by corporate management. The article shows the guiding ideas behind both discussions, as well as their convergences and interactions, and asks about the effects they have on management's duty to act.