16th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2010) August 12 - 15, 2010 in Lima, Peru.

 

Track: Organizational Issues in IS

Minitrack: Sustainability, Information Systems and Technology:

Emerging Opportunities for Information Systems to improve sustainability within organizations

Download at http://greensig.atspace.org/AMCIS2010-Mini-TrackCFP.pdf

 

Description:  

The continuous growth of the World population and the increasing demand for higher living standards has lead to the exploitation of natural resources and the pollution of the environment on an unprecedented scale. Shareholders, regulatory bodies, customers and employees are increasingly demanding firms to adopt a systematic approach to the sustainable management of increasingly scarce resources while at the same time reducing their impact on the environment. Environmental management is more than ever an imperative in industrial domains such as manufacturing, logistics, agriculture, forestry and IS & IT, which has become pervasive throughout entire organizational functions and processes.

In the emerging fields of Green IS and Green IT, a figure of 2 percent is often quoted as the percentage of environmentally harmful emissions attributed to the use of IT and the IT industry. The term ‘Green IT’ is now part of our vocabulary recognizing the problem of IT as a polluter and the responsibility of IT professionals to do something about it. On the other hand there is a counter argument that in IT and IS we have the potential and opportunity to positively influence the global environmental future – in other words, develop Green IS to reduce the other 98%. This sentiment is reflected in a chapters developed as part of the Global Text Project. Here the term ‘Green IT’ is distinguished from ‘Green IS’. ‘Green IT’ is seen to focus mainly on energy efficiency and equipment utilization. ‘Green IS’, in contrast, refers to “the design and implementation of information systems that contribute to sustainability of business processes”. Green IS as so described should therefore have a greater potential than Green IT because it tackles a much larger problem.

IS can play a key role in making organizations more sustainable while at the same reducing the negative environmental impact of IS and associated IT infrastructure.  Hence this mini track will focus on the role that IS can play in these two interrelated issues of Green IT and Green IS.

The purpose of this mini-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 business sustainability. Hence submissions of high quality papers that report on empirical research and case studies including but not limited to the topics available at

 

 

Mini-Track Chairs:

Helen Hasan - University of Wollongong – hasan@uow.edu.au

Lutz Kolbe, University of Göttingen lkolbe@uni-göttingen.de

Sameer Verma San Francisco State University sverma@sfsu.edu

Robert Nickerson San Francisco State University rnick@sfsu.edu

Alberto Onetti Università degli Studi dell'Insubria aonetti@eco.uninsubria.it

 

Submission Process:

Full paper submissions must be made electronically, through the AMCIS online submission system (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2010 ).

Papers will be peer-reviewed using a double-blind review system and will be considered for AMCIS Best Paper Awards.

 

Key Dates:

- Full Papers Due: March 1st, 2010

- Notification of Acceptance: April 12, 2010

- Camera Ready Copy Due: April 26, 2010

 

 

You may seek more information at http://greensig.atspace.org/AMCIS2010-Mini-TrackCFP.pdf or http://www.amcis2010.org/home/ or through emailing the mini-track chairs.