[AISWorld] AMCIS 2016 CFP for SIGGreen Mini Track - Sustainability, Organizations, and Green Information Systems

[Babita Gupta]

We invite submission of manuscripts in Completed Research Papers and
Emergent Research Forum (ERF) Paper categories to the following mini-track
at AMCIS 2016 to be held in San Diego from August 11 - 13, 2016:

Track: Green IS and Sustainability (SIGGreen)
Mini-Track 3: Sustainability, Organizations, and Green Information Systems
http://amcis2016.aisnet.org/index.php/sessions/track-list#SIGGreenanchor

Deadline for paper submissions: Tuesday, March 2, 2016.

Instructions for authors at: AMCIS website
<http://amcis2016.aisnet.org/index.php/sessions/call-for-papers>

(http://amcis2016.aisnet.org/index.php/sessions/call-for-papers)

Information systems (IS) have to be an integral part of organizational and
societal solutions that address the enormous environmental sustainability
challenges facing the planet. The information and technology ecosystem now
represents around 10 percent of the world’s electricity generation (The
Register, 2013). Further, with a 19% increase in the amount of electricity
consumed globally by data centers between 2011 and 2012, there are fears
that the rising need for power would continue unabated (Datacenter
Dynamics, 2014). Human activities have resulted in global green-house gas
(GHG) emissions to increase by 70% between 1970 and 2004 (IPCC, 2007).
Greenhouse gases in our atmosphere have increased to levels unprecedented
in the past 800,000 years (IPCC 2014). Climate change also includes ocean
warming, continental-average temperatures, temperature extremes and wind
patterns (IPCC 2014; Hansen et al., 2011). Green IS scholars have written
that the “quest for environmental sustainability needs an information
strategy” (Watson et al., 2012). Information systems help connect and
configure the disparate system of human activities into an integrated and
interlocking whole. Society, and its organizations, endeavoring for
environmental sustainability can employ information technologies to not
just redesign and refocus their production networks but also to create new
knowledge and to innovate.



Organizations are adopting green IS practices because of the derived
economic benefits such as cost savings from reduced consumption of
electricity and fuel, reduced hardware expenditures, reduced e-waste, and
improved brand image.Green IS technology offers strategic solution to the
problem of increasing costs of maintaining information systems by helping
organizations better integrate business, operations, and assets priorities
and aligning these with the organizational mission and goals.



The mini-track will provide an opportunity for presentation and discussion
on issues pertaining to organizations, green IS and their impact on
environmental sustainability. The authors are encouraged to submit both
theoretical and empirical work on sustainability, organizations, and green
information systems.


Suggested Topics:

   - Green IS diffusion and assimilation
   - Organizational adoption of sustainable business practices
   - Green business process management
   - Monitoring and recording the environmental impact of business processes
   - Operational efficiency and Green IS
   - Improving efficiency of business processes to lower GHG emissions
   - Regulations, institutions including governments, and Green IS
   - Information systems that promote sustainable business practices
   - Information systems for raising environmental awareness
   - Energy informatics
   - Tracking and monitoring of environmental information
   - Technologies for greening organizations
   - Reduce the environmental impact over the life-cycle of ICT devices
   - Green IS and social organizations
   - IS to promote sustainability and competitiveness
   - IS in support of social sustainability
   - Role of IS technologies in improving energy efficiency in
   organizations and metrics
   - Green IS business models
   - Models or case studies for developing/nurturing green culture in
   organizations
   - Understanding issues such as the security vulnerabilities, systems
   integration, entrenched organization culture, employee/consumer behavior,
   costs, and scalability
   - Case studies of companies and organizations using Green IS
   - Firm level challenges of Green IS
   - Open-source software and Green IS solutions
   - Qualitative studies of Green IS issues
   - Big Data/Analytics in Green IS management

Submission Timeline:
January 4, 2016: Manuscript submissions for AMCIS 2016 begin
March 2, 2016: AMCIS manuscript submissions closes for authors at 10:00 am
PST


Mini-Track Chairs:

Ganesh P. Sahu, M N National Institute of Technology, India,
gsahu at mnnit.ac.in

Babita Gupta, California State University Monterey Bay, bgupta at csumb.edu


Best wishes,


Babita
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Babita Gupta, Ph.D.
Chair, Special Interest Group on Decision Support and Analytics (SIGDSA)
Director of AACSB Accreditation
Professor of Information Systems
College of Business
California State University Monterey Bay
Seaside, CA 93955