TY - JOUR A1 - Beier, Grischa A1 - Kiefer, Julian A1 - Knopf, Jutta T1 - Potentials of big data for corporate environmental management: A case study from the German automotive industry JF - Journal of Industrial Ecology N2 - Integrating more sustainability into business processes is becoming increasingly important for companies. At the same time, they aim to collect and analyze large amounts of data (big data) to improve these processes. The potentials of big data for corporate environmental protection are hardly dealt with in the scientific literature. The main contribution of this paper is to identify potential big data use cases for corporate environmental management by using the example of the German automotive industry. For this purpose, expert interviews were conducted with corporate environmental managers which were evaluated by using a qualitative content analysis. In order to balance this environmental perspective and enhance it with data analytical expertise, these use cases were assessed by data analytics experts through a mixed method approach, in a subsequent process. The presentation of the identified five use cases and their critical reflection through data analytics experts are the key results of this paper. KW - automotive sector KW - Big Data KW - corporate environmental management KW - industrial ecology KW - resource management KW - technological change and innovation Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:eb1-opus-2340 SN - 1530-9290 VL - 26 IS - 1 SP - 336 EP - 349 PB - Wiley ER -