Developing ecological sustainability: a green IS response model

Abstract

Growing private and public concern with the environment is pushing businesses to increase their awareness and action. Using the Nordic bank Nordea as a case study and a Green information systems (IS) organizational response model developed on the basis of extant literature, we investigate how Green IS initiatives become part of a firm's overall strategy and part of the organizational sustainability process. We find that Green IS initiatives are initiated through a bottom-up process where environmentally concerned individuals identify issues and become Green IS champions. They use their authority and edification skills to promote Green IS to the organizational agenda. If the issue is aligned with the organizational agenda, it receives management's endorsement. The empirical case also shows two types of systemic feedback that can fuel a self-reinforcing sustainability process. The first type of feedback increases the champion's ability to promote Green IS in the future through authority and edification. The second type leads to the transformation of organizational value through reinforcement and extension. Finally, we identify interrelationships between organizational response processes, where higher-order response processes, e.g. change of corporate values, function as gatekeepers or pre-conditions for when and which issues are promoted to the organizational agenda.

Supply chain uncertainty and environmental management

“…The ABV has recently been used as a theoretical lens in the business sustainability literature-for example, the ABV was leveraged to explain corporate social responsibility and performance (Zhao et al, 2016), climate change adaptation (Pinske and Gasbarro, 2016;Galbreath, 2011), and green information system practices adoption (Hedman and Henningsson, 2016). Pinske and Gasbarro (2016) study on the oil and gas industry indicates that different attention channels (selective, situated, and structural) lead to different climate change adaptation strategies.…”

How IT executives create organizational benefits by translating environmental strategies into Green IS initiatives

“…In this context, the IS discipline has started to systematically explore the role that IS might play (e.g. Melville, ; Elliot, ; Seidel et al , ; Hedman & Henningsson, ; Hasan et al ., in press).…”

Modèle théorique de projets de Green IS : une spécification des relations entre objectifs, compétences et culture environnementale

“…La recherche indique que les projets de Green IS réalisés dans le secteur financier peuvent avoir différents impacts . En plus de réduire les émissions de CO2, ces projets transforment les valeurs organisationnelles (Hedman & Henningsson, 2016) . Au fil du temps, une organisation qui poursuit une série de projets de Green IS peut graduellement progresser vers une meilleure durabilité environnementale .…”