[AISWorld] [ECIS 2025] CfP - Track "IS for Resilience and Sustainable Development"

[Körner, Marc-Fabian, Dr.]

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to submit your latest research on the design and implementation of information systems for resilience and a sustainable future to our track on IS for Resilience and Sustainable Development (Track 16) at the 33rd European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2025), 12-18 June 2025, Amman, Jordan.

Track Description
Designing and implementing approaches for a more sustainable future and mitigating the impacts of global climate change by accelerating decarbonization is a societal and moral imperative of our time (Fuldauer et al. 2022). To strengthen the three pillars of sustainability – Environment, Social, and Governance – and to speed up the corresponding sustainability transition, various scholarly fields have acknowledged the obligation to understand and to design solutions for sustainability-related problems (Boh et al. 2023; Gholami et al. 2016; Soergel et al. 2021; Seidler et al. 2017). The solution cannot be generated by one discipline (Gholami et al. 2016). Rather, tackling Grand Global Challenges requires collaborative multi‐disciplinary efforts to which the information systems (IS) profession can contribute critical knowledge and expertise (Elliot 2011; Melville 2010; Seidel et al. 2017; Watson et al. 2010).
As IS researchers, we need to contribute towards understanding, explaining, and shaping a more resilient, decarbonized, and sustainable future. To do so, we should analyze the potential trade-offs of decisions that relate to the development, implementation, and use of Green Information Systems (Green IS). Green IS is pivotal for strategic sustainable solutions. It addresses issues associated with IS use by individuals, groups, organizations, and society to support environmentally sustainable practices and processes to emerge and diffuse (Watson et al. 2010). Green IS suggests that IS can play a pivotal role in enabling more resilient and sustainable solutions and underscores the key role of IS researchers and practitioners toward environmentally, economically, and socially sustainable development. In particular, we seek contributions that shed light on the collaborative, proactive steps required to support sustainable and resilient developments, such as IS-enabled value co-creation in the context of data ecosystems.
This conference track is tightly bound to the AIS Special Interest Group on Green Information Systems (SIGGreen). SIGGreen recognizes that the IS discipline can play a central role in creating resilient and sustainable development. The scope of SIGGreen is to discuss, develop ideas, and promote the role of IS in the global green agenda for mitigating climate change and fostering “digital decarbonization” through research, education, and community engagement. It spans the dual responsibilities of the IS profession to both reduce its impact on the environment and use its particular expertise to enable others to do so. Hence, this track is meant to bridge the established topic of Green Information Systems with the emerging topic of Digital Resilience to provide a platform for those in our discipline concerned with how information systems can help create resilient and sustainable development. We welcome the entire spectrum of information systems research and invite innovative, rigorous, relevant, and exciting research on information systems for resilient and sustainable development. We also appreciate interdisciplinary work as long as a substantive engagement with the information system discourse is maintained.
Topics of Interest
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

  *   Design of information systems to address ecological, social, and/or ethical challenges.
  *   The role of IS for building resilience.
  *   The role of IS for promoting the pivotal role of individuals in a sustainable future.
  *   Sustainable co-creation through data platforms and data sharing.
  *   Collaborative and sustainable business models (e.g., circular economy).
  *   IS-based approaches to foster digital decarbonization.
  *   The role of IS in energy sectors (electricity, heat, mobility, …).
  *   IS to support sustainable resilience in supply networks.
  *   IS to support sustainable consumer decisions.
  *   IS to support decarbonization in organizations.
  *   Applications of emerging IS innovations (e.g., AI, blockchain) to sustainability realms.
  *   Decision support for environmentally sustainable development.
  *   IS for social good.
  *   Green IS theory development.
  *   Meeting and collaborating virtually: reducing the need to travel.
  *   The affordances of existing and emerging (green) information systems for enacting sustainable development.


Important Dates
Submission Deadline: November 17, 2024
Notification to authors: February 28, 2025

Track Chairs

Marc-Fabian Körner, University of Bayreuth, Germany

Wai Fong Boh, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Anne Ixmeier, LMU Munich School of Management, Germany

For further information please visit https://ecis2025.eu/track-descriptions/ (Track 16: IS for Resilience and Sustainable Development).


Contingency Plan
Please also have a look at the Contingency Plan for ECIS 2025 Conference: https://ecis2025.eu/submissions/contingency_plan/


Best regards
Waifong, Anne, and Marc

(Apologies if multiple copies of this call are received.)


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Dr. Marc-Fabian Körner

Professorship of Information Systems and Digital Energy Management
Faculty of Law, Business Management and Economics
University of Bayreuth, D-95440 Bayreuth
Branch Business & Information Systems Engineering of the Fraunhofer FIT
FIM Research Center for Information Management