mohdtaha's "Green IS" @ posterous http://mohdtaha.posterous.com Most recent posts at mohdtaha's "Green IS" @ posterous posterous.com Wed, 26 May 2010 06:38:41 -0700 Unit of Analysis and Status of IS for Eco-sustainability http://mohdtaha.posterous.com/unit-of-analysis-and-status-of-is-for-eco-sus http://mohdtaha.posterous.com/unit-of-analysis-and-status-of-is-for-eco-sus From Melville, 2010

on why organisations are typically chosen as the unit of analysis ...

By virtue of their dominance in the global economy, business organizations play a critical role in mitigating climate change and promoting environmental sustainability. Organizations pursue environmental sustainability by informing stakeholders of the need to make changes to business as usual, by motivating them to take actions to achieve environmental objectives, and by assessing the impact of such actions on economic and environmental performance.

on the status of IS for eco-sustainability. It is not well understood and under-research although the role of IS can be transformative ...

Information systems are an important but inadequately understood weapon in the arsenal of organizations in their quest for environmental sustainability by enabling new practices and processes in support of belief formation, action formation, and outcome assessment. Research reports from Cisco (2008), McKinsey (Boccaletti et al. 2008), the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU 2008), the Climate Group (2008), and the European Union (Barroso 2008) underscore the potential of IS to promote environmental sustainability. At the same time, popular media accounts paint IS as a villain, as illustrated by the following newspaper headlines: “Massive Computer Centers Bad for the Environment” and “American Electronic Waste Contaminates China and India.”15 IS scholarship is sorely needed to overturn half-truths, contribute to the body of knowledge about environmental sustainability, and develop a well-founded discourse on IS for environmental sustainability that leads to improvement of the natural environment.

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