[AISWorld] CFP-AMCIS 2017 SIGGreen Mini Track on Sustainability, Organizations, and Green IS

[Babita Gupta]

AMCIS 2017
Boston, MA, USA
August 10-12, 2017.
Submissions due by 01-March-2017 1:00 PM EST (13:00 EST)
Instructions for authors at
https://amcis2017.aisnet.org/submissions/types-of-submissions/

** SIGGreen Mini-Track: Sustainability, Organizations, and Green
Information Systems **

Track: Green IS and Sustainability (SIGGREEN)

Information systems (IS) 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. 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. Green IS is an important tool to reduce
the carbon footprints of organizations and to protect the environment by
minimizing the hazardous impact of IT. This mini-track invites research
submissions, both theoretical and empirical, on sustainability and green IS
issues in organizations.

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 efficiencies 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

Mini-Track Chairs:
Ganesh P. Sahu, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad,
gsahu at mnnit.ac.in
Babita Gupta, California State University Monterey Bay, bgupta at csumb.edu
Arunabha Mukhopadhyay, Indian Institute of Management Lucknow, India,
arunabha at iiml.ac.in
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Babita Gupta, Ph.D.
Professor of Information Systems
Director of AACSB Accreditation
College of Business
California State University Monterey Bay
Room 326, Gambord BIT Building, Seaside, CA 93955
Phone: 831-582-4186