[AISWorld] AMCIS CFP (SIGGreen): Information Systems for Sustainable Business Activities and Supply Chains

[Rush, Daniel]

Deadline: March 2 - Less than 2 weeks left for AMCIS 2016

Mini-track: Information Systems for Sustainable Business Activities and Supply Chains
Track: Green IS and Sustainability (SIGGreen)

Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina
August 11-13, 2016


For researchers interested in the intersection of Green IS and supply chains, please consider contributing to the "Information Systems for Sustainable Business Activities and Supply Chains" mini-track at AMCIS 2016.

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 strategies that boldly embrace sustainability have resulted in companies' being successful in delivering financial, environmental, and social values to themselves as well as related stakeholders.

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. More importantly, research as well as management practice have illustrated that to be truly sustainable, companies should take a holistic approach that includes participation of multiple business functions, and should not only focus on their own business operations but also focus on improving sustainable business practices across the supply chain.

Given the recognized role of IT resources in enabling business capabilities within and across supply chain partners, 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.

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 innovations
  - Intertwining of environmentally and socially sustainable practices
  - IS in enabling environmentally and socially sustainable business operations
  - IS in enabling supply chain partners' coordination for sustainability
  - Sustainability vision within and across firms
  - The role of IS in enabling the assessment of sustainability performance within firms and across supply chains

Thank you,

Viet Dao and Dan Rush, Mini-Track Co-Chairs - IS4SusBiz at gmail.com<mailto:IS4SusBiz at gmail.com>

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

Instructions for authors and more information about the conference is available at http://amcis2016.aisnet.org

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