[AISWorld] AMCIS 2012 CFP: Information Systems for Sustainable Business Practices and their Organizational Adoption

[Chulmo Koo]

*AMCIS 2012 **Minitrack Proposal*



Information Systems for Sustainable Business Practices and their
Organizational Adoption



18th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2012)
09 - 12 August 2011, Seattle, Washington, USA, http://amcis2012.aisnet.org/

Track: Green IS: Building Research Programs and Designing Curricula



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, 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.



*Important Dates*


Mar 1, 2012: Deadline for paper submissions

April 2, 20012: Authors will be notified of acceptances on or about this
date

April 20, 2012: For accepted papers, camera ready copy due




*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

-       Information Systems for green industrial eco-systems



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

* *

*Minitrack Chairs Contact Information:*

 Chulmo Koo
Assistant Professor
College of Business
Chosun University, South Korea
helmetgu at g <helmetgu at chosun.ac.kr>mail.com



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



Stefan Seidel

Assistant Professor

Institute of Information Systems

University of Liechtenstein, Principality of Liechtenstein

stefan.seidel at uni.li
-- 
===============================
Chulmo Koo, Ph.D, Assistant Professor
College of Business, Chosun University, South Korea
Cellphone 82-16-505-1393
Office 82-62-230-6831
www.chosun.ac.kr/~helmetgu/
===============================
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.aisnet.org/pipermail/aisworld_lists.aisnet.org/attachments/20120205/3cabdf72/attachment.html>