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Table 2

Nine sustainability potential dimensions derived from interviews and the literature

Dimension	Key sustainability potentials		Exemplary literature sources	Number of interviews mentioned
Environmental sustainability	F1	Energy conservation	Cao et al. (2020) Veile et al. (2020)	21
	F2	Material saving	Hussain et al. (2024) Khan et al. (2021)	12
	F3	Emission reduction	Avrampou et al. (2019) Veile et al. (2020)	11
Economic sustainability	F4	Data efficiency	Bohnsack et al. (2022) Kong et al. (2021)	35
	F5	Process optimization	Bai and Sarkis (2017) Kamble et al. (2020a) Oliveira Santos et al. (2020)	33
	F6	Cost reduction	Veile et al. (2020) Yadav et al. (2020)	17
Social sustainability	F7	Employee motivation	Kreye (2016) Salimian et al. (2021)	15
	F8	Employee qualification	Wei et al. (2024) Luthra et al. (2020) Aldieri et al. (2021)	12
	F9	Employee support	Souza Cardoso et al. (2020) Moon et al. (2023)	11

Dimension	Key sustainability potentials		Exemplary literature sources	Number of interviews mentioned
Environmental sustainability	F1	Energy conservation	Cao et al. (2020)Veile et al. (2020)	21
	F2	Material saving	Hussain et al. (2024)Khan et al. (2021)	12
	F3	Emission reduction	Avrampou et al. (2019)Veile et al. (2020)	11
Economic sustainability	F4	Data efficiency	Bohnsack et al. (2022)Kong et al. (2021)	35
	F5	Process optimization	Bai and Sarkis (2017)Kamble et al. (2020a)Oliveira Santos et al. (2020)	33
	F6	Cost reduction	Veile et al. (2020)Yadav et al. (2020)	17
Social sustainability	F7	Employee motivation	Kreye (2016)Salimian et al. (2021)	15
	F8	Employee qualification	Wei et al. (2024)Luthra et al. (2020)Aldieri et al. (2021)	12
	F9	Employee support	Souza Cardoso et al. (2020)Moon et al. (2023)	11

Source(s): Authors’ own work