[AISWorld] Call for Papers: AMCIS 2013 Mini-track: Information Systems for Sustainable Business Activities and Supply Chains

[Dao, Viet]

AMCIS 2013 Call for Papers:
Mini-track: Information Systems for Sustainable Business Activities and Supply Chains
Track: SIGGreen
Chicago, Illinois, USA, August 15-17, 2013

Minitrack Description
Sustainability has increasingly become important to business research and practice over the past decades as a result of rapid depletion of natural resources and concerns over wealth disparity and corporate social responsibility. Sustainability research and practices have recognized that business performance should be evaluated based on its impacts on the environment and interested stakeholders besides profitability, known as the triple bottom line (TBL). Companies have increasingly recognized that business strategy that boldly embrace sustainability have resulted in companies' being successful in delivering financial, environmental, and social values to themselves as well as related stakeholders (MIT Sloan Management Review report, 2011).
In order to develop capabilities to address TBL issues, businesses need to engage in wide ranging activities such as changing business culture, redesigning business processes, etc. (Hart & Milstein, 2003; Porter & Kramer, 2006). More importantly, research as well as management practice have illustrated that to be truly sustainable, companies should not only just focus on their own business operations but also focus on improving sustainable business practices across the supply chain (Kleindorfer, Singhal, & Van Wassenhove, 2005; Dao, Langella, & Carbo, 2011).
Given the recognized role of IT resources in enabling business capabilities within and across supply chain partners (Rai, Patnayakuni, & Seth, 2006; Jain, Wadhwa, & Deshmukh, 2009), it is arguable that IT resources should be critical in enabling firms to develop capabilities to address sustainability issues both within firms and across their supply chain through coordination with supply chain partners (Melville, 2010; Dao et al., 2011). We invite research from different business areas, including MIS, management, supply chain and operation management, and particularly inter-disciplinary research that examines the role of IT resources in conjunction with other business resources in enabling firms to develop sustainability strategy that address all aspects of the triple bottom line, both within firms and across supply chain partners. Topics of interest include, but not limited to:

-          IS in enabling sustainable innovation

-          Intertwining of environmentally and socially sustainable practices

-          IS in enabling environmentally and socially sustainable operations (including direct environmental impact of data centers, power consumption and conservation, etc.)

-          IS in supply chain partners' coordination for sustainability

-          Sustainability vision within and across firms

-          The role of IS in enabling the assessment of sustainability performance


References
Dao, V., Langella, I., & Carbo, J. (2011) From green to sustainability: InformationTechnology and an Integrated Sustainability Framework. Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 20(1), 63-79.
Hart, S., & Milstein, M. B. (2003). Creating Sustainable Value. Academy of Management Executive, 17, 56-67.
Jain, V, Wadhwa, S, & Deshmukh, S. G. (2009). Revisiting information systems to support a dynamic supply chain: issues and prospective. Production Planning & Control, 20, 17-29.
Kleindorfer, P.R., Singhal, K., & Van Wassenhove, L.N. (2005). Sustainable Operations Management. Production and Operations Management, 14, 482-492.
Melville, N. (2010) Information Systems Innovation for Environmental Sustainability. MIS Quarterly, 34(1), 1-21.
MIT Sloan Management Review report (2011) Sustainability: The "Embracers" Seize Advantage. http://sloanreview.mit.edu/feature/sustainability-advantage/
Porter, M., & Kramer, M. (2006) Strategy & Society: The Link Between Competitive Advantage and Corporate Social Responsibility. Harvard Business Review, 84(12),78-92.
Rai, A., Patnayakuni, R., & Seth, N. (2006). Firm Performance Impacts of Digitally Enabled Supply Chain Integration Capabilities. MIS Quarterly, 30, 225-246.


Important dates:
January, 4, 2013:             Submission system starts to accept submissions
February 22, 2013           Deadline for paper submissions
April 22, 2013                 Notification of acceptance
May 9, 2013                    Final copy due




Co-chairs:
Viet Dao
vtdao at ship.edu<mailto:vtdao at ship.edu>
Jerry Carbo
jacarbo at ship.edu<mailto:jacarbo at ship.edu>
Ian Langella
imlangella at ship.edu<mailto:imlangella at ship.edu>
Steve Haase
sjhaas at ship.edu<mailto:sjhaas at ship.edu>
Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania


Viet T. Dao, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Management Information Systems
Grove College of Business
Shippensburg University
1871 Old Main Drive, GRH315
Shippensburg, PA 17257
Office: (717) 477-1415
E-mail: vtdao at ship.edu<mailto:vtdao at ship.edu>

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