[AISWorld] CfP: GreenBPM / AMCIS 2012

[vom Brocke Jan]

GREEN BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT:
How Organizations Can Become More Sustainable in Their Operations?

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

DESCRIPTION
Organizations have been a major contributor to environmental degradation caused by resource consumption, greenhouse emissions and wastage. Focusing on targets such as time, cost, quality, and flexibility of processes, the environmental consequences of their operations have largely dropped off of the agenda. With the growing awareness for global crises such as rapid climate change and the social divide, individuals, organizations, and governments increasingly recognize the need for sustainable development. As a consequence, the notion of sustainability has evolved around economical, social and ecological issues and IS researchers started to investigate the role of IT contributing to these issues. These studies indicate that it is not only IT but also the operations in organisations that play a major role in utilizing resources and, thus, impacting sustainability objectives. This is, why this Mini-Track particularly investigates how such operations can be studied from a business process management perspective.

Over the past decades business process management (BPM) has been established as an integrated management discipline leveraging the transformative power of information systems in various areas of interest. BPM has been defined as “a structured, coherent and consistent way of understanding, documenting, modeling, analyzing, simulating, executing and continuously changing end-to-end business processes and all involved resources in light of their contribution to business success.” As such, BPM has been recognised an important sub-domain of the IS discipline and remarkable achievements have been made in leveraging information technology for improving and innovating processes. We now want to extend this knowledge to make processes more environmentally friendly. Energy efficiency, water supply and emissions management are major challenges of today’s society and we firmly believe that contributions from the field of business process management can be of great academic value and immediate update by practice at the same time.

SUGGESTED TOPICS
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Theoretical Underpinnings of Green BPM
- Designing a Framework for Organizational Sustainability Campaigns
- Measuring Sustainability in Management Accounting and Process Performance Measurement
- Capturing Sustainability in Process Modelling
- Understanding and Managing Sustainability Transformations in Organizations
- The Role of IT in Sustainability Transformations
- The Role of People and Culture in Sustainability Transformations
- Sustainability at the city or regional level
- Case Studies on Sustainability Transformations

IMPORTANT DATES
March 1, 2012     Deadline for paper submissions
April 2, 2012     Author notification
April 20, 2012    Camera-ready copy due
August 9-12, 2012 Conference

CHAIRS
Jan vom Brocke, University of Liechtenstein, jan.vom.brocke at uni.li
Brian Donnellan, National University of Ireland Maynooth, brian.donnellan at nuim.ie
Philip DesAutels, Microsoft Corporation, philipda at microsoft.com

WEBLINK
http://amcis2012.aisnet.org/index.php/program/tracks-and-minitracks/143-siggreen-gbpm


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