[AISWorld] AMCIS2012 Minitrack: IS for Sustainable Business Practices and their Organizational Adoption (Track: Green IS)

[Gilbert Fridgen]

CALL FOR PAPERS

18th Americas Conference on Information Systems
Seattle, Washington August 9-12, 2012

Track: Green IS: Building Research Programs and Designing Curricula
(SIGGREEN)
Minitrack: Information Systems for Sustainable Business Practices and
their Organizational Adoption
Minitrack Chairs: Joseph Sarkis, Gilbert Fridgen, Chulmo Koo, Stefan Seidel

Green IS and sustainable business practices have increasingly found their
way into the agenda of researchers and practitioners. Green IS relates to
both, infrastructures and organizational aspects of environmental
technology. Sustainable business practices include Green IS but entail a
more general view, considering people, processes, software, and
information technology to support individual, organizational, and societal
objectives. Information in general and information systems in particular,
can play an important role in supporting sustainable business practices,
e.g. regarding supply chains, life cycle analyses, recycling, or resource
consumption (including energetic and non-energetic resources). This
minitrack focuses on the one hand on the design of artifacts that support
sustainable business practices and on the other hand on measures to ensure
their organizational adoption. The environmental awareness of IS managers
is one of the potential starting points for future investigations. The IS
discipline is challenged to provide insights into how organizations can
leverage their IS capabilities to effectively address environmental issues
while simultaneously considering economic imperatives such as management
of risk and return, and competitive advantage. Decisions related to
sustainable business practices, inevitably, will be strategic in nature,
with fundamental changes across organizations, and IS can play a central
role in this effort.

We invite contributions from a broad spectrum including business
information systems, engineering, business administration, management,
operations research, applied computer science, and economics in order to
fully incorporate technical and business aspects. We also invite
practitioners that will enrich the discussions through their business
experiences.


Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

IS for sustainable business practices:
- Green supply chain management & logistics
- Environmental management systems
- Life cycle analysis
- Reuse, recycling, remanufacturing
- Metals & minerals informatics
- IS for green industrial eco-systems
- IS to support carbon management, accounting and reporting

Organizational adoption of sustainable business practices:
- Motivations for greening within organizations
- Organizational adoption of sustainably business practices
- Information systems for an environmental awareness
- Technologies greening organizations (e.g. mobile systems, cloud
computing, remote sensing)
- Green awareness and communication for formulating organizational strategy

Important dates:
- AMCIS 2012 will begin accepting manuscript submissions on January 3, 2012.
- Deadline for submissions is March 1, 2012.
- You will receive notification by April 6, 2012 whether or not your paper
is accepted.
- If your paper is accepted, submit the camera-ready copy by April 25, 2012.


Contact information:

Joseph Sarkis
Professor of Management
Graduate School of Management
Clark University, USA
jsarkis at clarku.edu

Gilbert Fridgen
Research Center Finance & Information Management
University of Augsburg, Germany
gilbert.fridgen at wiwi.uni-augsburg.de

Chulmo Koo
Assistant Professor
College of Business
Chosun University, South Korea
helmetgu at chosun.ac.kr

Stefan Seidel
Assistant Professor
Institute of Information Systems
University of Liechtenstein, Principality of Liechtenstein
stefan.seidel at uni.li

See http://amcis2012.aisnet.org/ for further information.

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Dr. Gilbert Fridgen

Research Center
Finance- & Information Management

University of Augsburg, 86135 Augsburg
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Phone: +49  821  598-4849 (Secretariate: -4801)
Fax:   +49  821  598-4899

mailto:gilbert.fridgen at wiwi.uni-augsburg.de

http://www.fim-online.eu
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