Environmental Sustainability, Health and Social Wellbeing and Agility in Industry 4.0 to Society 5.0 Transition

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ID22418754
AuthorsAngana Chaudhuri (0009-0003-4537-9958, Industrial Engineering & Management Science (IEMS), Faculty of Behavioral, Management and Social Sciences (BMS) University of Twente Enschede the Netherlands, corresponding author), Mahak Sharma (0000-0001-9457-9292, Industrial Engineering & Management Science (IEMS), Faculty of Behavioral, Management and Social Sciences (BMS) University of Twente Enschede the Netherlands), Devrim Murat Yazan (0000-0002-4341-2529, Industrial Engineering & Management Science (IEMS), Faculty of Behavioral, Management and Social Sciences (BMS) University of Twente Enschede the Netherlands)
Year2026
Publication date2026-06-09
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBusiness Strategy and the Environment (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0964-4733 • E-ISSN: 1099-0836
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/bse.71108
OpenAlexW7164018340
LanguageEN
References cited77

Industry 4.0 is pushing the triple bottom line toward a necessary evolution: Society 5.0. Achieving this agile future depends on environmental sustainability, health and social wellbeing (H&SW). Therefore, this study,examines how environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategies operationalise the psychological, social and physical dimensions of the I4.0–S5.0 transition. Subsequently, it studies how H&SW supports agility across micro‐, meso‐ and macro‐industry levels. Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta‐Analyses (PRISMA) and Active Learning for Systematic Reviews (ASReview) prioritise 33 highly relevant articles from Scopus and Web of Science (2015–2025). This study then combines a scoping scan with term co‐occurrence mapping of this final dataset to categorise the findings across six research streams (RS). The findings demonstrate that ESG supports agility when it builds capability: psychological readiness through the capability approach (CA) at the micro‐level, social collaboration to boost social capital theory (SCT) at the meso‐level, and physical wellbeing attained through Regenerate, Share, Optimise, Loop, Virtualise, and Exchange (ReSOLVE) at the macro‐level. Crucially, it is demonstrated that circular principles enhance H&SW, utilising shared I4.0 platforms to reduce material intensity, ergonomic strain and occupational hazards. The contribution of this study is the AGILE framework—Anticipation, Governance‐alignment, Inclusion, Learning, and Ethical execution, which guides the H&SW‐centric, ESG‐driven I4.0–S5.0 transition.

Agile software development · Corporate governance · Corporate social responsibility · Scopus · Social capital · Systematic review · Triple Bottom Line · Corporate Management and Leadership · Digital Transformation in Industry · Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems

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