Industry 4.0 Impacts on Business Management and Information Systems: A Systematic Literature Review

This paper aims to investigate, through a systematic literature review, the impacts of Industry 4.0 on business management and Information Systems (IS). The topic of Industry 4.0 is extensively and usually discussed in the literature from a technical, software and engineering perspective, however it deserves high attention also under a business management and information system perspective, given the several new opportunities that it brings for companies under both dimensions. The results of the present study show the major topics of business management and IS which are involved in the studies on Industry 4.0, the main business opportunities that Industry 4.0 would provide to the companies and the main IS areas which are influenced by Industry 4.0. The research also deals with the inevitable new challenges that companies need to face for taking advantage from the abovementioned opportunities. The present study shows thus a state of the art about the relations between Industry 4.0, business management and IS and provides suggestions for future research avenues