[AISWorld] cfp ECIS 2014 Track: Sustainably Digital

[Eija Karsten]

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CALL FOR PAPERS

 

22nd European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2014)

 

Track: Sustainably Digital

(http://ecis2014.eu/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/22.-Sustainably-Digital.pdf)

 

June 9-11, 2014, Tel Aviv, Israel (http://ecis2014.eu/)

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IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Deadline 8 December, 2013

 

 

TRACK CHAIRS

 


Helena Karsten, Åbo Akademi University, Finland,  <mailto:ekarsten at abo.fi>
ekarsten at abo.fi (Corresponding track chair)


Stefan Seidel, University of Liechtenstein, Principality of Liechtenstein,
stefan.seidel at uni.li


Leslie Willcocks, London School of Economics, UK, l.p.willcocks at lse.ac.uk




DESCRIPTION


 


Information systems carry significant potential for supporting sustainable
development, that is: “development which meets the needs of the present
without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own
needs” (Our Common Future –report, UN, 1987). We can look at sustainability
from four interrelated perspectives:


 


Environmental sustainability: In the future there won’t be enough natural
resources available to allow a continuous expansion of the existing forms of
work. We call the new emerging form of work green work.


 


Economic sustainability: The activities are competitive enough so that they
can be expected to continue in future. The productivity level is such that
the people participating in these kinds of work activities can expect to
earn decent incomes.


 


Human sustainability: People must have a possibility to maintain their
health and to enjoy their work so that they can and want to continue working
until the normal retirement age.


 


Social sustainability: The sacrifices required in particulars job, and the
rewards given to people working in them, are distributed on a just manner.
The working possibilities of one group of people are not realized at the
cost of some other group. If injustices exist, they will probably lead to
social tensions, which sooner or later threaten the continuity of existing
arrangements.


 


The problematics of sustainability are therefore complex. The IS discipline
is thus challenged to investigate the phenomenon of sustainability from
different perspectives, and some significant progress has been made. In
terms of environmental sustainability, information systems can help in
designing and implementing business processes that assimilate less waste and
use less energy. Green IT is looking for solutions to diminish the harm that
IT is a cause of. Economic sustainability is at the core of management
information systems, transaction processing, and data management. Human
sustainability concerns personal health and well-being, where individuals
can be supported by sensor networks, personal information systems, and data
management, amongst others. Social sustainability can be supported by
governments, companies and individual people, all together. 


 


With this track, we aim at deepening our understanding both in Green IS and
Green IT. In line with prior conference tracks at ECIS and other
conferences, we would like to contribute to defining and further developing
this important vein in IS research. 


 


We invite rigorous and relevant empirical studies that employ a variety of
methods as well as conceptual papers on theory development.


 


Topics of Interest


 


Possible topics include, but are not limited to:


 


Relationships between different aspects of social, economic, human and
environmental sustainability related to IS development and use


 


-          Consequences for organizations in absence of sustainability 

-          Consequences for society in absence of sustainability 

-           Organizational issues related to sustainably digital 

 


Information technologies as part of the problem (Green IT)


 


-          the extraction of raw materials with ensuing environmental
problems and health problems for workers, 

-          unsustainable working conditions for those working with the
assembly of information technologies (long hours, minimal pay), 

-          environmental and health problems related to the disposal of
e-waste.

 


Sustainability in globally distributed software and services provision


 


-          Models for cross cultural collaboration and knowledge exchange


-          Sustainable and contextually sensitive choices in location
decisions


-          Methods of software production sensitive to distance and time


-          Developing vendor capabilities within sustainable collaborative
partnerships


-          What is the role of emerging global sustainability standards such
as the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), and the ISO 26000 Guidance for
Social Responsibility, and what is the role of emerging government
regulations and guidelines? 

 


Organizational sustainability transformations


 


-          IS-enabled sustainability transformations


-          Sustainable business models


-          Design of sustainable value chains


-          Reverse logistics


-          Analysis and design of business processes in the light of
sustainability considerations


-          Use of information systems to design and implement more
sustainable business processes


-          Organizational issues related to sustainable business processes


 


Sustainable global outsourcing


 


-          How do social and environmental responsibilities affect global IS
outsourcing? 

-          How are sustainability considerations factored into the IS
outsourcing relationship? 

-          Are there “win-win” benefits of sustainability in an IS
outsourcing relationship? 

-          How should IS outsource providers develop sustainability within
their organizations? 

-          What should IS outsource buyers evaluate regarding sustainability
in a provider? 

 


Sustainable digital life


 


-          Information Systems that support lowering carbon emissions and
lower the consumpion of scarce resources (energy, water, etc)


-          Recycling of electronic devices, e-waste


-          Sustainable everyday life practices with help of ICTs


-          Sustainable consuming with direct access to product information


 


SPONSORSHIP

 

The Information Society will invite the best papers to be published in a
Special Issue.

 

 

ASSOCIATE EDITORS

 

Pamela Abbott, Brunel University, UK 

Christina Amcoff Nyström, Mid Sweden University, Sweden

Ron Babin, Ryerson University, Canada 

Sarah Beecham, Lero - The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre,
University of Limerick, Ireland

Laurence Brooks, Brunel University, UK

Brian Donnellan, National University of Ireland, Ireland 

Gilbert Fridgen, University of Augsburg, Germany

Helen Hasan, University of Wollongong, Australia

Matthew Jones, Cambridge University, UK 

Peter Loos, Saarland University, Germany 

Brian Nicholson, Manchester Business School, UK 

Jan Recker, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Johanna Sefyrin, Mid Sweden University, Sweden

Matti Vartiainen, Aalto University, Finland

Yingqin Zheng, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

Lena-Maria Öberg, Mid Sweden University, Sweden

 

 

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Dr Helena Karsten

Åbo Akademi University

Dept of Information Technologies

Turku, Finland

 

email ekarsten at abo.fi

phone +358 40 763 2258

 

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