Steve Elliot

University of Sydney, Australia

Daniel Veit

Augsburg University, Germany

Jane Webster

Queen’s University, Canada

Description

This track welcomes theoretical and empirical perspectives on societal impacts of information systems (IS). These impacts can be actual or potential, intended or unintended, and positive, negative or diverse in effect. The relationship of these impacts to the longer term sustainability of society itself is integral to IS research and concern.

The consequences of IS, whether they revolve around environmental, social, or ethical issues, can translate into degradation or betterment of the natural environment, better or worse quality of life and work, social inclusion/exclusion, (non)discrimination, and (un)employment. For example, IS can contribute to climate change through increasing carbon footprints, but can also provide a means for managing that carbon footprint.

The IS community is uniquely positioned to address these issues of sustainability and societal impacts, given its encompassing knowledge of both technical and social dimensions, along with its solution-oriented focus that has been developed over four decades.

We invite innovative, rigorous and relevant IS studies addressing these issues and employing a wide variety of methods. Empirical (qualitative and quantitative) studies as well as design-oriented research and conceptual papers on theory development will be considered. Due to the broad and inclusive nature of the topic, we encourage the submission of studies that address a variety of different units of analysis, including individual, group, process, organization, government, and society at large. The research questions may be derived from a broad spectrum of disciplines including information systems and business, engineering, management, operations management, applied computer science, environmental science, marketing, economics, psychology, sociology, etc.

Topics of Interests

• Green IS
• Sustainable design in IS
• Sustainable business practices and processes
• IS for greener supply chains
• Energy informatics
• Environmental and societal IS planning and governance
• Societal consequences of emerging technologies
• Theoretical perspectives on (un)intended consequences of IS
• Changing nature of work and life in information society
• Side effects of IS, such as work stress, addiction, victimization, surveillance, etc.
• IS-related unemployment and deskilling, especially in knowledge work
• The role of IS in social protest and economic or educational (in)equality
• Responsible societal innovations using IS
• Ethical approaches to IT system investment and IT system design
• Ethical computing
• The role of IS in supporting and empowering marginalized groups in society
• Bottom-of the-pyramid issues relating to IS
• Sharing Economy
• Methods for assessing social, ethical, and environmental impacts of IS
• Societal issues related to the ICIS 2016 theme, Digital Innovation at the Crossroads

Associate Editors

• Adela Chen, Colorado State U., USA
• Vanessa Cooper, RMIT U., Australia
• Jacqueline Corbett, Laval U., Canada
• Viet Dao, Shippensburg U. of Pennsylvania, USA
• Jason Dedrick, Syracuse U., USA
• Gilbert Fridgen, U. of Bayreuth, Germany
• Uri Gal, U. of Sydney, Australia
• Henner Gimpel, U. of Augsburg, Germany
• Petri Hallikainen, The U. of Sydney, Australia
• Catherine Hardy, The U. of Sydney, Australia
• Sora Kang, Hoseo U., Korea
• Wolf Ketter, Erasmus U. Rotterdam, Netherlands
• Lutz Kolbe, U. of Göttingen, Germany
• Johann Kranz, U. of Göttingen, Germany
• Ho Geun Lee, Yonsei U., Korea
• Jungwoo Lee, Yonsei U., Korea
• Byungtae Lee, KAIST, Korea
• Seth Li, Clemson U., USA
• De Liu, U. of Minnesota, USA
• Peter Loos, Saarland U., Germany
• Rony Medaglia, Copenhagen Business School
• Nigel Melville, U. of Michigan, USA
• Alemayehu Molla, RMIT U., Australia
• Jacqueline Pike, Duquesne U., USA
• Israr Qureshi, Hong Kong Polytechnic U., Hong Kong
• Saonee Sarker, U. of Virginia, USA
• Sarah Spiekermann, Vienna U. of Economics and Business, Austria
• Manuel Trenz, University of Augsburg, Germany
• Rick Watson, U. of Georgia, USA
• Mary Beth Watson-Manheim, U. of Illinois at Chicago, USA

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Andrea Carrugati

Aarhus University, Denmark

Dirk Hovorka

University of Sydney, Australia

Erica Wagner

Portland State University, USA

Description

Information systems have become ubiquitous and intertwined in most organizational contexts, from small businesses to governments, and in most social contexts from ephemeral groups to societies at large. As such research that investigates relationships between information technologies, systems, and social organization is imperative.  This track seeks to publish a set of papers that provides a scholarly understanding of the relationship between information technologies, systems and social organization of all forms including how organizational structures, processes, and people are impacted as well as how these organizational forms influence technology design, functionality and management.  We welcome submissions that that show, either empirically, theoretically or both, how organizational processes and structures; individual and group actions and behaviors; and technology features interact to affect the creation, use, and consequences of information systems.   The IS in Organization and Society track also welcomes papers that offer critical accounts of the techo-organizational phenomenon from alternative theoretical perspective represented within the IS community.  The Track Chairs will nominate suitable papers for an expedited review process at Information and Organization, in which the journal’s editorial board will work with authors to develop the manuscript for possible publication.  Authors may expect an expedited timeline for editorial decisions.

Topics of Interests but not limited to

• Emerging technologies and their social and organizational consequences
• Implications of information technologies for organizational change
• Implications of information technologies for societal change
• Alternative organizational configuration such as virtual and networked organizations
• Practice orientations to theorizing
• Ecological approaches to theorizing
• Materiality and performativity in Information system design
• Organizational learning
• Implications of “Big Data’ for the Ethics of Information
• Organizational communication and organizational culture
• Systems Theory of Information and organizations

Associate Editors

• Shamel Addass, IESEG School of Management
• JP Allen, U. of San Francisco
• Alvaro Arenas, IE Business School
• Franca Cantoni, Catholic U. of Piacenza
• Elizabeth Davidson, U. of Hawaii
• Bob Galliers, Bentley U.
• Matt Germonprez, U. Nebraska Omaha
• Frank Goethals, IESEG School of Management
• Ella Hafermalz, U. of Sydney
• Aurelie LeClercq, IESEG School of Management
• Allen Lee, Virginia Commonwealth U.
• Matt Levy, U. of San Francisco
• Lucia Marchegiani, Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli
• Kathy McGrath, Brunel U. London
• Lapo Mola, Skema Business School
• Ramiro Montealegre, U. of Colorado Boulder
• Sune Dueholm Müller, Aarhus Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University
• Stella Pachidi, Cambridge Judge Business School
• Nancy Pouloudi, Athens University of Economics & Business
• Aurelio Ravarini, U. Carlo Cattane
• Jeremy Rose, University of Skövde
• Ada Scupola, Roskilde U.
• Maddalena Sorrentino, U. of Milano
• Francesco Virili, U. of Massari
• Edgar Whitley, London School of Economics

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