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Track Chairs:
Cathy Dwyer, Pace University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Chadi Aoun, University of Technology Sydney, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.">
Track Description:
Environmental sustainability and climate change are a global issue, with many cultural, organizational, technical, social, regulatory, economical, and individual dimensions. Just as computer-based information systems have been the driving force for societal progress, Green IS can be a driving force for sustainability improvements. These improvements will require “an information strategy to parallel and complement engineering solutions.”*
Green IS enables the transformative power of information systems to support the multiple dimensions of sustainability. It addresses the world’s greatest challenges: shrinking access to non-renewable resources, increased energy and food costs, and environmental degradation due to climate change. This track is open to any type of research that suits the scope of Green IS research, as well as those that adapt research and industry experience into teaching cases, modules, and courses in order to prepare Green IS professionals.
IS research has historically taken a cross functional view of organizational information, a perspective that greatly increased the efficiency of the modern enterprise. IS research can re-apply this perspective to model global consumption patterns, and with the use of resource informatics, increase the efficiency of global consumption and support sustainability.
Mini-Tracks:
Sustainability, Organizations, and Green Information Systems
Pratyush Bharati, University of Massachusetts, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Abhijit Chaudhury
Babita Gupta
Ganesh Sahu
Information systems help connect and configure the disparate system of human activities into an integrated and interlocking whole. Society, and its organizations, endeavoring for environmental sustainability can employ information technologies to not just redesign and refocus their production networks but also to create new knowledge and to innovate. Green IS technology offers strategic solution to the problem of increasing costs of maintaining information systems by helping organizations better integrate business, operations, and assets priorities and aligning these with the organizational mission and goals. The mini-track will provide an opportunity for presentation and discussion on issues pertaining to organizations, green IS and their impact on environmental sustainability. The authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and empirical work on sustainability, organizations, and green information systems.
Information Systems for Sustainable Business Activities and Supply Chains
Viet Dao, Shippensburg University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
This mini-track focuses on the role of Information Systems in enabling the development and promotion of sustainability strategy and sustainable business practices that focus on all aspects of the triple bottom line: Profit, People, and Planet. More particularly, this mini-track is interested in research regarding the role of IS in enabling sustainable business practices that not only address sustainability within individual firms but also reach beyond firm boundary to examine the role of IS in enabling coordination among supply chain partners to develop more sustainable business practices across supply chains.