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.