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Call for Papers: 25th AMCIS
August 15 - 17, 2019, Cancun, Mexico
Track: Green IS and Sustainability (SIGGreen)
Minitrack: Information Systems for Sustainable and Resilient
Businesses and Supply Chains
Organizations are increasingly demanding sustainable and resilient
business strategies, activities, and supply chains. While the
effort to address issues such as the rapid depletion of natural
resources, concerns over wealth disparity, and corporate social
responsibility is difficult, companies have increasingly
recognized that business strategies that boldly embrace
sustainability have resulted in companies’ being successful in
delivering financial, environmental, and social values to
themselves as well as related stakeholders (MIT Sloan Management
Review report, 2011).This can be especially true in the face of
threats such as natural disasters that strain traditional supply
chains (Sheffi and Rice, 2005), and require new and resilient
information systems approaches to address their challenges (Wang,
Gao and Ip, 2010).
In order to develop capabilities to address issues that affect
their people, profits, and planet, businesses need to engage in
wide ranging activities such as changing business culture,
redesigning business processes, etc. (Hart & Milstein, 2003;
Porter & Kramer, 2006). More importantly, research as well as
management practice have illustrated that to be truly sustainable,
companies should take a holistic approach that includes
participation of multiple business functions. Additionally,
businesses should focus on not only their own sustainable business
operations but also sustainable business practices across the
supply chain, (Kleindorfer, Singhal, & Van Wassenhove, 2005;
Dao, Langella, & Carbo, 2011; Elliot, 2011).
Given the recognized role of IT resources in enabling business
capabilities within and across supply chain partners (Rai,
Patnayakuni, & Seth, 2006; Jain, Wadhwa, & Deshmukh, 2009;
Zhang, Luna-Reyes, Jarman and Tayi, 2015), it is arguable that IT
resources should be critical in enabling firms to develop
capabilities to address sustainability issues both within firms
and across their supply chain through coordination with supply
chain partners (Melville, 2010; Dao et al., 2011, Maholtra,
Melville, Watson, 2013). We invite research from all business
areas, including MIS, management, supply chain and operation
management, and particularly inter-disciplinary research that
examines the role of IT resources in conjunction with other
business resources in enabling firms to develop sustainability
strategy that address all aspects of the triple bottom line, both
within firms and across supply chain partners. Recent developments
in using Blockchain to support energy markets (Wagman, 2017) and
to support transparency in supply chains (Casey and Wong, 2017)
offer potentially interesting avenues for Green IS research.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
– IS enabling sustainability coordination and assessment within
firms and across supply chains
– IS enabling sustainable innovations
– The application of IS to disaster relief and recovery supply
chains
– Intertwining of environmentally and socially sustainable
practices
– Using technologies like blockchain and cryptocurrencies to
facilitate supply chain transparency and to improve energy markets
– IS enabling environmentally and socially sustainable business
operations
– Sustainability vision and strategy within and across firms
Important Dates:
January 7, 2019: Manuscript submissions open
March 1, 2019: 10 am PST Deadline for paper submissions
April 15, 2019: Author notification of decisions
April 24, 2019: Camera-ready submissions due
Submission Instructions:
<https://amcis2019.aisconferences.org/submissions/types-of-submissions/>https://amcis2019.aisconferences.org/submissions/types-of-submissions/
Minitrack co-chairs:
Thomas Abraham, Kean University,
tabraham@kean.edu<mailto:tabraham@kean.edu>
Viet Dao, Shippensburg University,
vtdao@ship.edu<mailto:vtdao@ship.edu>
Daniel Rush, Boise State University,
danrush@boisestate.edu<mailto:danrush@boisestate.edu>
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