-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [WI] AMCIS2012 Minitrack: IS for Sustainable Business Practices and their Organizational Adoption (Track: Green IS) Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:43:41 +0100 From: Gilbert Fridgen gilbert.fridgen@wiwi.uni-augsburg.de To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org, wkwi@seda.wiai.uni-bamberg.de, wi@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de CC: jsarkis@clarku.edu, helmetgu@chosun.ac.kr, stefan.seidel@uni.li

CALL FOR PAPERS

18th Americas Conference on Information Systems Seattle, Washington August 9-12, 2012

Track: Green IS: Building Research Programs and Designing Curricula (SIGGREEN) Minitrack: Information Systems for Sustainable Business Practices and their Organizational Adoption Minitrack Chairs: Joseph Sarkis, Gilbert Fridgen, Chulmo Koo, Stefan Seidel

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.

We invite contributions from a broad spectrum including business information systems, engineering, business administration, 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.

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 - IS for green industrial eco-systems - IS to support carbon management, accounting and reporting

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

Important dates: - AMCIS 2012 will begin accepting manuscript submissions on January 3, 2012. - Deadline for submissions is March 1, 2012. - You will receive notification by April 6, 2012 whether or not your paper is accepted. - If your paper is accepted, submit the camera-ready copy by April 25, 2012.

Contact information:

Joseph Sarkis Professor of Management Graduate School of Management Clark University, USA jsarkis@clarku.edu

Gilbert Fridgen Research Center Finance& Information Management University of Augsburg, Germany gilbert.fridgen@wiwi.uni-augsburg.de

Chulmo Koo Assistant Professor College of Business Chosun University, South Korea helmetgu@chosun.ac.kr

Stefan Seidel Assistant Professor Institute of Information Systems University of Liechtenstein, Principality of Liechtenstein stefan.seidel@uni.li

See http://amcis2012.aisnet.org/ for further information.

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Dr. Gilbert Fridgen

Research Center Finance-& Information Management

University of Augsburg, 86135 Augsburg ______________________________________________________

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