Die relative Betriebstiefe als strategischer Erfolgsfaktor

Ihde, Gösta B.

doi:10.1007/978-3-663-02130-8_5

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“…Such decisions should not be taken lightly. There are claims that we are increasingly in a pluriculture (Ihde, 1993) whereby media and culture as well as food styles are increasingly universalized-rather than being distinct and localized to a particular region. However, a short…”

Section: Academic Practices Beyond Virtual Conferencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Practicing What We Preach? Reflections on More Sustainable and Responsible IS Research and Teaching Practices

Kranz¹,

Zeiss²,

Beck³

et al. 2022

CAIS

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Research on IS solutions for environmental sustainability have evolved to a modest, but firm body of knowledge. Despite this progressive understanding about the potential of IS in enabling environmental sustainability, our academic practices seem widely unaffected by these insights. The way we do research or conduct teaching is rarely influenced by sustainability considerations. For example, before the pandemic many of us belonged to a hypermobile group that travelled 5-6 times more than the average employee. Our research is also often not aligned with environmental goals. We research digital technologies without sufficiently acknowledging the significant amounts of resources they consume. Similarly, our teaching often focuses on the effective development and use of information systems; however, rebound, second order, or spillover effects are barely covered. Based on these observations we raise the question: Are we practicing enough of what we preach? While recognizing several efforts of IS researchers, we can no longer ignore the 'environmental elephant in the room'. In our panel report, we discuss the status-quo and ideas to improve the environmental and societal impact of our academic practices and present three ideas to move forward: Leverage virtualization and limit air travel, overhaul teaching curricula, and recalibrate incentives and evaluation regimes.

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Section: Academic Practices Beyond Virtual Conferencesmentioning

confidence: 99%