-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [wkwi] HICSS CfP: Green Information Systems Datum: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 15:31:07 +0200 (CEST) Von: Gilbert Fridgen gilbert.fridgen@uni-bayreuth.de Antwort an: postmaster@idefix.buva.sowi.uni-bamberg.de

48th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_48/apahome48.htm

INTERNET AND THE DIGITAL ECONOMY Minitrack: Green Information Systems

Important Dates: * June 15, 2014: Submit full manuscripts for review. Review is double-blind. * Aug 15, 2014: Review System emails Acceptance Notices to authors.

* Jan 5-8, 2015: Conference

Minitrack Chairs: Gilbert Fridgen (gilbert.fridgen@uni-bayreuth.de) Johann Kranz (jkranz@uni-goettingen.de) Stefan Seidel (stefan.seidel@uni.li)

Topics:

Due to the growing awareness that business organizations are a major contributor to the exploitation of scarce natural resources, the increasing pollution of the environment, and the looming threat of climate change, several questions surrounding the concept of environmental sustainability have attracted the interest of management scholars around the globe. This especially holds for the field of Information Systems research given the cross-functional role of information systems within organizations as well as across entire value chains. Scholars have begun to explore the opportunities that information systems offer in support of sustainability under the term “Green Information Systems.” As information systems have been a major contributor to productivity growth and efficiency gains over the past decades their role in the development of sustainable business practices definitely warrants further investigation. Notably, it has been asserted that information systems occupy a unique role as they are both a contributor and a potential solution to environmental degradation.

Potential topics range from the design of systems and digital services for environmental sustainability to the application of existing theories on change at individual, group, and organizational levels, as well as the development of novel theory. We invite rigorous and relevant studies employing a wide variety of methods. Empirical (qualitative and quantitative) studies as well as design-oriented research and conceptual papers on theory development will be considered. In order to fully incorporate technical and business aspects, we welcome contributions from a broad spectrum of disciplines including business and information systems engineering, management, operations management, computer science, marketing, and economics.

______________________________________________________ Prof. Dr. Gilbert Fridgen

Professor of Information Systems and Sustainable IT Management

Project Group Business & Information Systems Engineering of the Fraunhofer FIT

Deputy Director Research Center

Finance & Information Management

Faculty of Law, Business Management and Economics University of Bayreuth 95440 Bayreuth

Phone: +49 921 55-4711 Fax: +49 921 55-84-4711 mailto:gilbert.fridgen@uni-bayreuth.de http://www.fim-rc.de ______________________________________________________