<div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span class="apple-style-span"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial">AMCIS 2012 </span></u></span><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial">Minitrack Proposal</span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial">Information Systems for
Sustainable Business Practices and their Organizational Adoption</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial">18th Americas
Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2012)</span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial">09 - 12 August 2011, Seattle,
Washington, USA,</span> </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://amcis2012.aisnet.org/"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;background:white;text-decoration:none">http://amcis2012.aisnet.org/</span></span></a></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial">Track: Green IS:
Building Research Programs and Designing Curricula</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial">Green IS and
sustainable business practices have increasingly found their way into the
agenda of researchers and practitioners.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial"> <span class="apple-style-span">Green IS relates to both,
infrastructures and organizational aspects of environmental technology. Sustainable
business practices include Green IS but entail a more general view, considering
people, processes, software, and information technology to support individual,
organizational, and societal objectives. Information in general and information
systems in particular, can play an important role in supporting sustainable business
practices, e.g. regarding supply chains, life cycle analyses, recycling, or
resource consumption (including energetic and non-energetic resources). This
minitrack focuses on the one hand on the design of artifacts that support
sustainable business practices and on the other hand on measures to ensure
their organizational adoption. The environmental awareness of IS managers is
one of the potential starting points for future investigations. The IS
discipline is challenged to provide insights into how organizations can leverage
their IS capabilities to effectively address environmental issues while
simultaneously considering economic imperatives such as management of risk and
return, and competitive advantage. Decisions related to sustainable business
practices, inevitably, will be strategic in nature, with fundamental changes
across organizations, and IS can play a central role in this effort.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></span></u></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial">We invite contributions
from a broad spectrum including business information systems, engineering,
management, operations research, applied computer science, and economics in
order to fully incorporate technical and business aspects. We also invite
practitioners that will enrich the discussions through their business
experiences.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Important
Dates</span></u></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial"><br>
</span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left;text-indent:24.0pt"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial">Mar 1, 2012: Deadline for paper submissions</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-left:20.0pt;text-align:left;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric ideograph-other;word-break:keep-all"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial">April 2, 20012: Authors will be notified of acceptances
on or about this date</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-left:20.0pt;text-align:left;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric ideograph-other;word-break:keep-all"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial">April 20, 2012: For accepted papers, camera ready copy due</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial"><br>
<span class="apple-style-span"><b><u>Topics
of interest include, but are not limited to:</u></b></span></span></p>
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IS for sustainable business practices:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:left"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial">Green
supply chain management & logistics</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial">Environmental
management systems</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial">Life cycle
analysis</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:left"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial">Reuse,
recycling, remanufacturing</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial">Metals
& minerals informatics</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial">Information
Systems for green industrial eco-systems</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial">Organizational adoption of sustainable business practices:</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial">Motivations
for greening within organizations</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial">Organizational
adoption of sustainably business practices</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial">Information
systems for an environmental awareness</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial">Technologies
greening organizations (e.g. mobile systems, cloud computing, remote sensing)</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial">Green
awareness and communication for formulating organizational strategy</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial">Minitrack Chairs Contact Information:</span></u></b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial">Chulmo Koo</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial"><br>
<span class="apple-style-span">Assistant Professor</span><br>
<span class="apple-style-span">College of Business</span><br>
<span class="apple-style-span">Chosun University, South Korea</span><br>
</span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#5c4520;background:white"><a href="mailto:helmetgu@chosun.ac.kr">helmetgu@g</a><a href="http://mail.com">mail.com</a></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial">Joseph Sarkis</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial"><br>
<span class="apple-style-span">Professor of Management</span><br>
<span class="apple-style-span">Graduate School of Management</span><br>
<span class="apple-style-span">Clark University, USA</span><br>
</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:jsarkis@clarku.edu"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#5c4520;background:white">jsarkis@clarku.edu</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial">Gilbert Fridgen</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial">Research Center Finance & Information Management</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial">University of Augsburg, Germany</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:gilbert.fridgen@wiwi.uni-augsburg.de"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#5c4520;background:white">gilbert.fridgen@wiwi.uni-augsburg.de</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color:#5c4520"></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial">Stefan Seidel</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial">Institute of Information Systems</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial">University of Liechtenstein, Principality of Liechtenstein</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:stefan.seidel@uni.li"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#5c4520;background:white">stefan.seidel@uni.li</span></a><a name="_GoBack"></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color:#5c4520"></span></span></span></p>
</div>-- <br><div>===============================<br>Chulmo Koo, Ph.D, Assistant Professor <br>College of Business, Chosun University, South Korea<br>Cellphone 82-16-505-1393 <br>Office 82-62-230-6831<br><a href="http://www.chosun.ac.kr/~helmetgu/" target="_blank">www.chosun.ac.kr/~helmetgu/</a><br>
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