GreEnCom 2011 - First International Workshop on Green Enterprise and Commerce (GreEnCom)

The First International Workshop on Green Enterprise and Commerce (GreEnCom)

Affiliated by
The 13th IEEE Conference on Commerce and Enterprise Computing (CEC 11)

http://www.tudor.lu/cec2011/

September 5-6, Luxembourg

Workshop Description

While industries, corporations, and information systems (IS) units have acknowledged the importance of environmental issues, the IS academy has provided limited contribution to burgeoning knowledge in this important field. For example, Google has been paying much attention to build up a clean energy future, and search better energy options: (1) Green Operations, which is trying to use as little energy as possible in data centers and office, (2) Green Products, which integrate technology, innovation, scalability, and talented tools for offset the emission that it cannot be eliminated, (3) Green Investment, which is an renewable energy project investment that achieve benefits and risk, (4) Green Awareness, which pursue a green policy, strategy, and practices.

The critical role of Greening IS and Green IT for corporate greening eco-computing systems, for consumer’s motivation toward green IT behavior in response to goods and services, for protecting an environment in the future generation and solving a shortage of energy is urgently needed to be embedded in the life cycles of materials, manufacturing systems, and public infrastructure. Even though all consensus of Computer Science, Management Science based on both of academic researcher and practitioners has already begun to initiate that IS related to a set of people, infrastructure, IT components, IT service, organization strategy & capability, and consumer’s motivation would give various aspects’ views for greening business and sustainability in the next generation. Through encouragement of academic researchers to respond to this social and computing call for establishing the IS perspective into Eco-computing systems, Greening IT behavior, and next generation, we seek to expand and incorporate various research methodologies including theoretical approaches (conceptual/theory building), empirical studies encompassing broad-based surveys, case studies, technical research modeling, quantitative and analytical techniques.

Workshop Goal

Specifically, our objective toward this workshop is twofold:

(1) To further unite the green academic community integrating Computer Science, Management Science, and Management Information Systems in IT infrastructure, organizational aspects, and individual aspects in response to environmental issues.
(2) To develop a research agenda from both researchers and practitioners for established and emergent scholars in the various areas.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

1. IS behavioral research for leadership and motivation for greening within organizations
2. How information systems can raise and contribute to awareness of organizational greening both internal and external to the organization.
3. The roles of various emergent information systems and technology including mobile systems, cloud computing, and remote sensing to aid in greening organizations.
4. Environmental management model (e.g. strategic model and its implementation) implementation and support through IS.
5. Economy policy and incentives and standards, regulations, and legal issues.
6. The roles of IS in environmental management systems, life cycle analysis, eco-design, green supply chain management, and other environmentally oriented business practices.
7. Environmental stakeholder involvement in IS and IT design and development.
8. IS roles in carbon trading systems (both internal and external).
9. Clean Technology and IT relationships.
10. Scale development for empirical research in green IS/IT
11. Globalization, IT and the Environment
12. Monitoring, visualization, and optimization
13. Green logistics and supply chain management
14. Innovation methods and sustainability
15. Green eco-systems and sustainability
16. Green awareness and communication for formulating organizational strategy

Workshop Format

Please submit your paper via the following website.

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=greenc...

At least one of the authors of an accepted paper has to be registered and present his/her paper in the workshop. All the accepted and registered papers will be grouped into several technical sessions for oral presentation plus a follow-on Q&A/discussion session. We do not exclude the option to invite an internationally known scholar in Green Enterprise and Commerce to deliver a keynote.
Also, we will accept both 2-3 page short papers and 1-2 page posters.

Workshop Schedule

Submission deadline: June 7, 2011
Notification of acceptance: June 24, 2011
Camera-Ready copy due: July 8, 2011
Conference and Workshop program: TBA

Workshop Organizers

1. Chulmo Koo, (Chosun University, South Korea, helmetgu-AT-gmail.com, http://www.chosun.ac.kr/~helmetgu/)
2. Zongwei Luo, (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, igi.lzw-AT-gmail.com, http://www.hku.hk)
3. Jason J. Jung (Yeungnam University, Korea, j2jung-AT-gmail.com, http://intelligent.pe.kr/ )

Committee Members

Jason Jung (Yeungnam University, Korea)
Zongwei Luo (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Chul-Mo Koo (Chosun University, Korea)
Costin Badica (University of Craiova, Romania)
Jan Vom Brocke (University of Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein)
Cathy Dwyer (Pace University, USA)
Gilbert Fridgen (University of Augsburg, Germany)
Joseph Sarkis (Clark University, USA)
Oleksiy Mazhelis (University of Jyvaskyla, Finland)
Stefan Seidel (Universitat Liechtenstein)