Digital Enablement and Digital Exhaustion in Business Research Through the Job Demands Resources Framework

ABSTRACT

Purpose The purpose of this conceptual article is to address the fragmented and largely descriptive nature of existing research on digital fatigue by theoretically grounding the phenomenon within core business and management theory. The study explains why digital technologies, while enabling efficiency and flexibility, increasingly contribute to exhaustion and reduced performance. The core argument is that digital fatigue represents a central theoretical mechanism for understanding the shift from digital enablement to digital exhaustion in contemporary organizations.