SUSTAINABILITY AND ECONOMICS IN THE TRANSITION FROM KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT TO DIGITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Abstract

Information has always been important for human beings since the existence of humanity. The main purpose of this importance is that knowledge is a guide from individuals to societies. In the time period from the primitive age to the information processes dominated by today's digital technologies, information is used for various purposes, making a cumulative progress with the emergence of both a continuous phenomenon and new concepts. Although the use of information in different fields as well as its use for service to humanity in the process it has come to, today's dominance of digital information and the advantages it provides, when it is considered in terms of benefit-cost, the dimension of economy emerges. In this study, the economic dimension of information in the digital age is discussed, by first considering the gains obtained by the digitalization of information in all digitalized information processes from organizational information to managerial information. The study aims to bring together the economic dimension of knowledge and the digitalization processes in the light of the data obtained by scanning the literature.