10 Human Capital for Fourth Industrial Revolution: Human Capital 4.0

DOI: 10.4324/9781003195894-10

10.1 Introduction

The fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0), introduced in Germany in 2011, is considered the game changer regarding its impacts upon businesses and economies (Mubarik et al. 2021; Kusi-Sarpong et al. 2022). It transmutes the conventional business processes, and cutting-edge technologies are replacing the conventional business processes. It has also accelerated the pace and speed of business transactions manifold. A business transaction that was previously taking many days for execution now could be executed in a few seconds. It allows firms to have digitally driven business processes and value-creating networks and provide ...

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