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font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Mini-Track Title: Sustainability, Organizations, and Green Information Systems<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Track Title: Green IS and Sustainability</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">20th Americas Conference on Information Systems
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Smart Sustainability: The Information Systems Opportunity<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Savannah, GA, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">August 7-10, 2014.</span></p>
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</span><a href="http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">AMCIS website</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Description:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Information systems (IS) have to be an integral part of organizational and societal solutions that address the enormous
environmental sustainability challenges facing the planet. Human activities have resulted in global green-house gas (GHG) emissions to increase by 70% between 1970 and 2004 (IPCC, 2007). Climate change also includes ocean warming, continental-average temperatures,
temperature extremes and wind patterns (Hansen et al., 2011; IPCC, 2007). 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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Suggested Topics</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Green IS diffusion and assimilation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Organizational adoption of sustainable business practices<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Green business process management
<span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Monitoring and recording the environmental impact of business processes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Operational efficiency and Green IS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Improving efficiency of business processes to lower GHG emissions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Regulations, institutions including governments, and Green IS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Information systems that promote sustainable business practices<span style="background:
yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Information systems for raising environmental awareness<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Energy informatics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Tracking and monitoring of environmental information<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Technologies for greening organizations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Reduce the environmental impact over the life-cycle of ICT devices<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Green IS and social organizations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">IS to promote sustainability and competitiveness<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">IS in support of social sustainability<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Role of IS technologies in improving energy efficiencies in organizations and metrics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Green IS business models<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Models or case studies for developing/nurturing green culture in organizations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Understanding issues such as the security vulnerabilities, systems integration, entrenched organization culture, employee/consumer behavior,
costs, and scalability<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Case studies of companies and organizations using Green IS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Firm level challenges of Green IS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Open-source software and Green IS solutions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Qualitative studies of Green IS issues<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Mini-Track Chairs:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Pratyush Bharati<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Management Science and Information Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">University of Massachusetts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Boston, MA 02125-3393<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Pratyush.Bharati@umb.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Abhijit Chaudhury<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Computer Information Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Bryant University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Smithfield, RI 02917<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">achaudhu@bryant.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Babita Gupta<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">College of Business<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">California State University Monterey Bay<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Seaside, CA 93955<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">bgupta@csumb.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Ganesh P. Sahu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">School of Management Studies
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M N National Institute of Technology <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Allahabad, 211004, India<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">gsahu@mnnit.ac.in<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">References<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Hansen, J., Makiko, S., Kharecha, P. and Schuckmann, K. V., 2011. Earth's energy imbalance and implications.
<i>Atmos. Chem. Phys.</i>, 11, 13421-13449.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) 2007. Climate change 2007: Synthesis report. Summary for policy makers.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><a href="http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/syr/ar4_syr_spm.pdf"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/syr/ar4_syr_spm.pdf</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">(Last accessed 4 October 2012)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Watson, R. T., Corbett, J., Boudreau, M. C., and Webster, J. 2012. “An Information Strategy for Environmental Sustainability”,
<i>Communications of the ACM</i>, (55: 7) 28-30.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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