Type and Duration
PhD-Thesis, February 2013 until May 2016 (finished)Coordinator
Hilti Chair of Business Process ManagementMain Research
Business Process ManagementField of Research
Process ManagementDescription
Environmental sustainability is one of most important challenges of the 21st century and can be defined as "behavior impacting on the natural environment that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future stakeholders to meet their own needs". To that end, fundamental changes in the behavior at the individual, organizational, and societal levels are needed. Information systems (IS) have been identified as a key resource in order to influence human behavior and the beliefs about the natural environment. While environmental sustainability has been on the agenda of researchers from different disciplines for the past decades, only few studies exist that investigate the influence of information systems on environmental sustainability. Therefore, this study aims to investigate how information systems can contribute to sustainability transformations.Reference to Liechtenstein
Information systems are a key resource in organizational sustainability transformations. Sustainability is a topic of high relevance for the regional industry, so Liechtenstein companies will benefit from the university's expertise on the action possibilities that information systems create to support such transformation.Keywords
Green IS, Environmental Sustainability, Functional affordance
