[AISWorld] CFP: AMCIS 2019 Mini-track: Information Systems for Sustainable and Resilient Businesses and Supply Chains

[Dao, Viet]

Call for Papers: 25th AMCIS

August 15 - 17, 2019, Cancun, Mexico

Track: Green IS and Sustainability (SIGGreen)
Minitrack: Information Systems for Sustainable and Resilient Businesses and Supply Chains


Organizations are increasingly demanding sustainable and resilient business strategies, activities, and supply chains. While the effort to address issues such as the rapid depletion of natural resources, concerns over wealth disparity, and corporate social responsibility is difficult, 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 (MIT Sloan Management Review report, 2011).This can be especially true in the face of threats such as natural disasters that strain traditional supply chains (Sheffi and Rice, 2005), and require new and resilient information systems approaches to address their challenges (Wang, Gao and Ip, 2010).

In order to develop capabilities to address issues that affect their people, profits, and planet, 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 take a holistic approach that includes participation of multiple business functions. Additionally, businesses should focus on not only their own sustainable business operations but also sustainable business practices across the supply chain, (Kleindorfer, Singhal, & Van Wassenhove, 2005; Dao, Langella, & Carbo, 2011; Elliot, 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; Zhang, Luna-Reyes, Jarman and Tayi, 2015), 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, Maholtra, Melville, Watson, 2013). We invite research from all 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. Recent developments in using Blockchain to support energy markets (Wagman, 2017) and to support transparency in supply chains (Casey and Wong, 2017) offer potentially interesting avenues for Green IS research.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

– IS enabling sustainability coordination and assessment within firms and across supply chains
– IS enabling sustainable innovations
– The application of IS to disaster relief and recovery supply chains
– Intertwining of environmentally and socially sustainable practices
– Using technologies like blockchain and cryptocurrencies to facilitate supply chain transparency and to improve energy markets
– IS enabling environmentally and socially sustainable business operations
– Sustainability vision and strategy within and across firms

Important Dates:
January 7, 2019: Manuscript submissions open
March 1, 2019: 10 am PST Deadline for paper submissions
April 15, 2019: Author notification of decisions
April 24, 2019: Camera-ready submissions due

Submission Instructions:
<https://amcis2019.aisconferences.org/submissions/types-of-submissions/>https://amcis2019.aisconferences.org/submissions/types-of-submissions/

Minitrack co-chairs:
Thomas Abraham, Kean University, tabraham at kean.edu<mailto:tabraham at kean.edu>
Viet Dao, Shippensburg University, vtdao at ship.edu<mailto:vtdao at ship.edu>
Daniel Rush, Boise State University, danrush at boisestate.edu<mailto:danrush at boisestate.edu>