Abstract
While in the past information technology was mostly seen as a contributor to environmental degradation, recent studies suggest that information systems (IS) can indeed enable sustainable processes, products, and services. Specifically, information systems are expected to create an impact on individual beliefs about environmental sustainability, enable more sustainable work practices through virtualization and remote work, enable organizations to meet compliance imperatives and social norms, or increase resource efficiency. In this context, notions such as energy informatics or green business process management have emerged. The IS discipline is thus challenged to explore the potential of information systems to contribute to the betterment of the natural environment by enabling more sustainable work practices at individual, organizational, and societal levels. This special focus issue invites rigorous studies employing various research designs. The focus is on solution-oriented studies that show how the transformative power of IS can be leveraged in order to lessen our impact on the natural environment, which is under imminent pressure. Prospective studies thus range from the development and testing of new theory that explains how IS can support environmentally friendly behavior to design-oriented studies on the development of solutions for environmental sustainability. At this, we see one specific challenge in understanding how sustainability-related IS phenomena are different to “conventional” areas of investigation, typically focusing on mere economic imperatives including time, cost, and quality. Contributions from research and business practice on the following (and related) topics are invited: Information systems designs for sustainable work practices IT-enabled sustainability transformation The application of IS theories to sustainability-related phenomena Research methods for the investigation of sustainability-related phenomena Information systems and beliefs about environmental sustainability Supply chain management and sustainability Business intelligence and performance management for sustainability Systems approaches towards ITenabled environmental sustainability Sustainability solutions Energy informatics Green business process management 2 Submission
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