Viksit Bharat @ 2047: Transformative Role of Commerce, Management and Technology (Edition-III) (ISBN : 978-93-49468-06-1)

Digital Collaboration: The Backbone of Modern Businesses

Author: Dr. Sarthak Gupta

Digitally collaboration has turned the ways by which commercial business is conducted. In this paper, the development of digital collaboration technologies, which have grown from graduated add-on communications to the bedrock of continuity and productivity and, in an increasing number of digital business scenarios, commercial competitiveness is discussed. One of these theories guiding the study is the socio-technical systems theory which is concerned with study of technology systems, organizational practice and human interaction in remote places. It considers the extent these remote working practices might be supported by digital collaborations technologies; it considers organisational and commercial implications of a remote working system; it considers socio-technical implications when assessing effective collaboration; it assesses implications of remote working on modern commerce's sustainability. This research approach was qualitative which included critical analysis of the literature and thematic synthesis of the current academic literature from 2015 to 2025. The data were sourced from peer reviewed journal articles, popular academia books and institutional reports from leading academic journal databases. Based on the thematic approach, the patterns, the contradictions and gaps in conceptualization of the literature were determined. The study shows that digital collaboration options like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Slack and even enterprise solutions in the cloud are essential to communication, workflow and organisational resilience in distributed work environments. The study also reveals some of the longstanding issues with digital fatigue, communications gaps, fading organisational culture, employee isolation, and the difficulties of managers in maintaining collaboration and trust in virtual teams. The results additionally reveal that the effectiveness of remote work is not just about technology accessibility, but also about socio-technical issues such as leadership adaptability, communication norms, organisational support and digital competence. The study makes a three-fold contribution to the existing scholarship: it provides a socio-technical and commercial approach to remote work and digital collaboration.

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