-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] AMCIS 2016 CFP for SIGGreen Mini Track - Sustainability, Organizations, and Green Information Systems Datum: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 12:43:43 -0800 Von: Babita Gupta bgupta@csumb.edu An: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org Kopie (CC): Ganesh Sahu drgpsahu@gmail.com

We invite submission of manuscripts in Completed Research Papers and Emergent Research Forum (ERF) Paper categories to the following mini-track at AMCIS 2016 to be held in San Diego from August 11 - 13, 2016:

Track: Green IS and Sustainability (SIGGreen) Mini-Track 3: Sustainability, Organizations, and Green Information Systems http://amcis2016.aisnet.org/index.php/sessions/track-list#SIGGreenanchor

Deadline for paper submissions: Tuesday, March 2, 2016.

Instructions for authors at: AMCIS website http://amcis2016.aisnet.org/index.php/sessions/call-for-papers

(http://amcis2016.aisnet.org/index.php/sessions/call-for-papers)

Information systems (IS) have to be an integral part of organizational and societal solutions that address the enormous environmental sustainability challenges facing the planet. The information and technology ecosystem now represents around 10 percent of the world’s electricity generation (The Register, 2013). Further, with a 19% increase in the amount of electricity consumed globally by data centers between 2011 and 2012, there are fears that the rising need for power would continue unabated (Datacenter Dynamics, 2014). Human activities have resulted in global green-house gas (GHG) emissions to increase by 70% between 1970 and 2004 (IPCC, 2007). Greenhouse gases in our atmosphere have increased to levels unprecedented in the past 800,000 years (IPCC 2014). Climate change also includes ocean warming, continental-average temperatures, temperature extremes and wind patterns (IPCC 2014; Hansen et al., 2011). Green IS scholars have written that the “quest for environmental sustainability needs an information strategy” (Watson et al., 2012). Information systems help connect and configure the disparate system of human activities into an integrated and interlocking whole. Society, and its organizations, endeavoring for environmental sustainability can employ information technologies to not just redesign and refocus their production networks but also to create new knowledge and to innovate.

Organizations are adopting green IS practices because of the derived economic benefits such as cost savings from reduced consumption of electricity and fuel, reduced hardware expenditures, reduced e-waste, and improved brand image.Green IS technology offers strategic solution to the problem of increasing costs of maintaining information systems by helping organizations better integrate business, operations, and assets priorities and aligning these with the organizational mission and goals.

The mini-track will provide an opportunity for presentation and discussion on issues pertaining to organizations, green IS and their impact on environmental sustainability. The authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and empirical work on sustainability, organizations, and green information systems.

Suggested Topics:

- Green IS diffusion and assimilation - Organizational adoption of sustainable business practices - Green business process management - Monitoring and recording the environmental impact of business processes - Operational efficiency and Green IS - Improving efficiency of business processes to lower GHG emissions - Regulations, institutions including governments, and Green IS - Information systems that promote sustainable business practices - Information systems for raising environmental awareness - Energy informatics - Tracking and monitoring of environmental information - Technologies for greening organizations - Reduce the environmental impact over the life-cycle of ICT devices - Green IS and social organizations - IS to promote sustainability and competitiveness - IS in support of social sustainability - Role of IS technologies in improving energy efficiency in organizations and metrics - Green IS business models - Models or case studies for developing/nurturing green culture in organizations - Understanding issues such as the security vulnerabilities, systems integration, entrenched organization culture, employee/consumer behavior, costs, and scalability - Case studies of companies and organizations using Green IS - Firm level challenges of Green IS - Open-source software and Green IS solutions - Qualitative studies of Green IS issues - Big Data/Analytics in Green IS management

Submission Timeline: January 4, 2016: Manuscript submissions for AMCIS 2016 begin March 2, 2016: AMCIS manuscript submissions closes for authors at 10:00 am PST

Mini-Track Chairs:

Ganesh P. Sahu, M N National Institute of Technology, India, gsahu@mnnit.ac.in

Babita Gupta, California State University Monterey Bay, bgupta@csumb.edu

Best wishes,

Babita ------------------------------------------------------- Babita Gupta, Ph.D. Chair, Special Interest Group on Decision Support and Analytics (SIGDSA) Director of AACSB Accreditation Professor of Information Systems College of Business California State University Monterey Bay Seaside, CA 93955 _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld@lists.aisnet.org