This important new book explores how AI drives sustainable digital transformation, offering expert insights on strategy, innovation, governance, and value creation. With its integrated and sustainability-centered framework, the book creates a holistic perspective rarely addressed in existing AI and digital transformation literature. The focus is on how intelligent technologies are driving fundamental changes in the way organizations operate, compete, and create value. Its 13 chapters, from leading academics and industry specialists, offer a comprehensive and timely perspective on the sustainable impact of artificial intelligence on digital transformation. The information provided here goes beyond technological hype to explain how AI is reshaping responsible strategies, innovation processes, organizational structures, and managerial decision making. Through a combination of conceptual insights and applied perspectives, the chapters highlight practical approaches to implementing AI while addressing critical challenges such as governance, ethics, and workforce transformation. Readers gain a deeper understanding of how organizations can harness intelligent technologies to improve performance, build competitive advantage, and support sustainable growth. Designed for researchers, graduate students, executives, and policy professionals, this book serves both as a strategic resource and a scholarly reference. By bridging theory and practice, the text provides essential insights for those seeking to navigate complexity and lead effectively in an era of rapid technological change.

Chang Won Lee is a professor in the Operations and Service Management (OSM) area at Hanyang University Business School, Seoul, Korea. He serves as the director of the Center for Global Technology Business Studies and the Hanyang University Business School Research Institute (HUBSRI). He earned his Ph.D. in Business Administration from Saint Louis University, USA. Professor Lee is currently the board chair of the Academic Society of Global Business Administration (ASGBA), president of Korea Institute of Product Safety (KPSI) and president of the ESG Evaluators Association. He served as Vice President of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS) and as IFORS VP representing APORS (Association of Asia-Pacific Operational Research Societies). He had also led numerous professional associations, and served as president of the Korea Association of Logos Management (KALM), ASGBA, Korean Academic Association of Business Administration (KAABA), Korean Society of Project Management (KSPM), Korean Association of Business Education (KABE), and Korean Productivity Association (KPA). His teaching, research, and consulting span artificial intelligence applications, business analytics, digital transformation, innovative entrepreneurship, ESG management, global development impact, sustainable healthcare system, information resource planning, metaverse business, non-profit strategy, quality leadership, supply chain management, technology strategy, and the fourth industrial society impact. Professor Lee has published over 100 academic papers in leading journals such as Journal of Operational Research Society (JORS), European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR), Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, International Journal of Information Management, Expert Systems with Applications, Information and Management, Journal of Medical Systems, Sustainability, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, and Supply Chain Management among others. He is the co-author of Future Strategies in the Artificial Intelligence Metaverse Era, Production Operations Management, and co-translated Business Statistics and Quality Management, and Practicing Logos Management. Professor Lee is an ISO9000 Quality Management and ISO14000 Environmental Management certified international auditor. He was a visiting scholar at the Drucker School of Management and the University of Michigan and formerly served as Director of the Hanyang University Business School MBA Program and Vice Dean of Hanyang University Management Education Institute. He was listed on Who’s Who in the World, Marquis Who’s Who, 2010.