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Call for Papers
Submission Deadline: December 6th, 2011
Green IS/IT Strategies and Technologies
Track of the
2012 International Conference on Information Resources Management
(An AIS Affiliated Conference)
http://conf-irm2012.wu.ac.at/

Vienna University of Economics and Business
(WU WIEN), Vienna, Austria
May 21-23, 2012

Track Chairs:
Roya Gholami, Petra Staufer-Steinnocher
r.gholami@aston.ac.uk, petra.staufer@wu.ac.at

TRACK COVERAGE

The relationship between IT and the environment is complex, as IT can 
have both first and second order effects (Hilty et al., 2006).  The 
first order effect refers to the negative environmental impact of IT 
production, use, and disposal.  Thus, making the production, use and 
disposal of IT greener refers to 'Green IT' (Murugesan, 2007). On the 
other hand, the second-order effect refers to the positive impact of 
using IT and information systems (IS). Thus, using IS to improve the 
eco-sustainability of business, social and economic processes refers to 
"Green IS" (Chen et al., 2008).
The "Green IS" view sees IS as a possible solution to many environmental 
problems. However, IS scholarship contributing to knowledge about 
organizations and environmental sustainability is under-developed. The 
purpose of the Green IS/IT track is to advance theoretical and practical 
knowledge in this emerging domain and to gain a better understanding of 
current industry initiatives and academic research being conducted on 
the role of IS in sustainability.

RECOMMENDED TOPICS

This track encourages the submission of high quality papers that report 
on empirical research and case studies, assess critical issues or 
undertake theory development, including but not limited to following topics:


-The role of IS/IT in sustainability
-Adoption and diffusion of Green IS/IT
-The use of IS/IT to change human behaviors towards sustainable business 
practices
-Links among Green IS/IT, sustainability practices, organizational and 
environmental performance
-The design, implementation, and use of IS/IT to reduce organizations' 
environmental impact
-Ecological value of virtualization, cloud computing, software as a service
-The roles of various emergent information systems, technologies and 
practices including mobile systems, location-aware technologies (e.g., 
GPS/GNSS, RFID), geographic information systems, and spatial business 
intelligence to aid in greening organizations
-Monitoring, visualization, and optimization
-Green logistics and supply chain technologies and practices
-IS roles in carbon trading systems (both internal and external)
-Case studies of Green IS and IT


Submission Types and Guidelines
Full Length Submissions: Submissions must be no more than 5000 words, 
including references, appendices and title page, with a maximum of 5 
figures/tables. Submissions must be original, and previously 
unpublished, conceptual or empirical research manuscript for review. All 
accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings in their 
entirety upon payment of registration fees.  Papers accepted and 
presented at the conference will also be placed in the AIS e-Library. 
Papers not presented at the conference, for any reason, will not be 
included in the AIS e-Library.  Highly rated papers by the reviewers 
will be considered for publications in selected Journals. Moreover, the 
paper that best represents, in terms of quality and suitability to the 
theme and ideals of the conference will be awarded the "Best Paper 
Award" during the conference.
Research-in-Progress Submissions: Submissions of no more than 2000 words 
with a maximum of 3 figures/tables. All research-in-progress submissions 
will be published in the proceedings as short papers.
Teaching Cases: We welcome submissions of teaching cases. The cases 
should be based on real situations and targeted at specific learning 
objectives.  Cases should be no more than 5000 words and must be 
accompanied by instructor teaching notes (not included in the 5000 
words).  The teaching notes will not be published.
Panel and Tutorial Submissions: Submissions of not more than 1000 words. 
Proposals should include the objectives, issues to be covered and full 
details of all presenters. Method of presentation is at the submitter's 
discretion; however, the submitter has the responsibility for providing 
his/her own panel members. All accepted proposals will appear in the 
conference proceedings (Please note that all panelists and tutorial 
presenters must register for the conference).

Important Announcements
-The number of submissions by an author (including joint authorship) is 
strictly limited to a maximum of two submissions.
-Authors of accepted papers (at least one person per submission) and all 
panel members MUST register and attend the conference.
-Submissions of ALL TYPES must be received by the above deadline.
-Details of track descriptions and how to submit will be announced soon.

Important Dates
Submission deadline: December 6, 2011
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: February 1, 2012
Final Submission and Early Registration due date: March 1, 2012

Send all your inquiries to: Program Co-Chairs: Roman Brandtweiner 
(roman.brandtweiner@wu.ac.at) & Lech Janczewski 
(l.janczewski@auckland.ac.nz)




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