-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] AMCIS 2012 CFP: Information Systems for Sustainable Business Practices and their Organizational Adoption Datum: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 20:56:21 +0900 Von: Chulmo Koo helmetgu@gmail.com An: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org
_AMCIS 2012 __Minitrack Proposal_
Information Systems for Sustainable Business Practices and their Organizational Adoption
18th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2012) 09 - 12 August 2011, Seattle, Washington, USA, http://amcis2012.aisnet.org/
Track: Green IS: Building Research Programs and Designing Curricula
Green IS and sustainable business practices have increasingly found their way into the agenda of researchers and practitioners.Green IS relates to both, infrastructures and organizational aspects of environmental technology. Sustainable business practices include Green IS but entail a more general view, considering people, processes, software, and information technology to support individual, organizational, and societal objectives. Information in general and information systems in particular, can play an important role in supporting sustainable business practices, e.g. regarding supply chains, life cycle analyses, recycling, or resource consumption (including energetic and non-energetic resources). This minitrack focuses on the one hand on the design of artifacts that support sustainable business practices and on the other hand on measures to ensure their organizational adoption. The environmental awareness of IS managers is one of the potential starting points for future investigations. The IS discipline is challenged to provide insights into how organizations can leverage their IS capabilities to effectively address environmental issues while simultaneously considering economic imperatives such as management of risk and return, and competitive advantage. Decisions related to sustainable business practices, inevitably, will be strategic in nature, with fundamental changes across organizations, and IS can play a central role in this effort.
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We invite contributions from a broad spectrum including business information systems, engineering, management, operations research, applied computer science, and economics in order to fully incorporate technical and business aspects. We also invite practitioners that will enrich the discussions through their business experiences.
*_Important Dates_*
Mar 1, 2012: Deadline for paper submissions
April 2, 20012: Authors will be notified of acceptances on or about this date
April 20, 2012: For accepted papers, camera ready copy due
*_Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:_*
IS for sustainable business practices:
-Green supply chain management & logistics
-Environmental management systems
-Life cycle analysis
-Reuse, recycling, remanufacturing
-Metals & minerals informatics
-Information Systems for green industrial eco-systems
Organizational adoption of sustainable business practices:
-Motivations for greening within organizations
-Organizational adoption of sustainably business practices
-Information systems for an environmental awareness
-Technologies greening organizations (e.g. mobile systems, cloud computing, remote sensing)
-Green awareness and communication for formulating organizational strategy
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*_Minitrack Chairs Contact Information:_*
Chulmo Koo Assistant Professor College of Business Chosun University, South Korea helmetgu@g mailto:helmetgu@chosun.ac.krmail.com http://mail.com
Joseph Sarkis Professor of Management Graduate School of Management Clark University, USA jsarkis@clarku.edu mailto:jsarkis@clarku.edu
Gilbert Fridgen
Research Center Finance & Information Management
University of Augsburg, Germany
gilbert.fridgen@wiwi.uni-augsburg.de mailto:gilbert.fridgen@wiwi.uni-augsburg.de
Stefan Seidel
Assistant Professor
Institute of Information Systems
University of Liechtenstein, Principality of Liechtenstein
stefan.seidel@uni.li mailto:stefan.seidel@uni.li