Track description n°14

IS for Resilience and Sustainable Development

Track Chairs

Marc-Fabian Körner

University of Bayreuth, Germany

Marc is a postdoctoral researcher at the Professorship for Information Systems and Digital Energy Management at the University of Bayreuth. He is affiliated with the Branch Business & Information Systems Engineering of the Fraunhofer FIT and the FIM Research Center for Information Management where he leads a research group on Green IS and Digital Decarbonization. In his research, he analyses the potential of emerging digital technologies and data ecosystems for societal and industrial decarbonization as well as for future energy markets. Here, he focuses not only on (market) strategies and the design of decision support systems but also on the digitalization of decarbonization measurements, such as digital MRV-processes.

Marc served as Main Chair for the Green IS Track at ECIS 2024 and ECIS 2025 and as Minitrack Chair at AMCIS 2024 and 2025. Moreover, he served as workshop chair for AIS’ “SIG Green” at ICIS 2022 and ICIS 2023. In addition, he served as AE for ECIS 2023 and for the German International Conference Wirtschaftsinformatik in 2023, 2024, and 2025. In 2025, he also served as AE for AOM’s CTO division. Moreover, Marc is an active reviewer for several IS conferences and journals.

Nigel Melville

University of Michigan

npmelv@umich.edu

Nigel is a leading scholar in the field of information systems, with a particular focus on the intersection of digital innovation and sustainable development. As a sociotechnical scientist at the University of Michigan, his research explores how organizations leverage digital technologies to drive strategic transformation, operational efficiency, and environmental sustainability. Nigel’s work is internationally recognized for his foundational contributions to Green Information Systems and energy informatics, advancing our understanding of how IT can support decarbonization and enable sustainable business practices. His work has been widely published, with more than 50 peer-reviewed journal and conference articles and over 10,000 citations, making a significant impact on both academic research and practice in the fields of digital transformation and sustainability.

Anne Ixmeier

LMU Munich School of Management, Germany

ixmeier@lmu.de

Anne is a post-doctoral researcher at LMU Munich School of Management’s Professorship of Digital Services and Sustainability. Her research focuses on organizational and managerial implications of information systems with a particular interest in the environmental and social sustainability impact of digital technology on individuals and organizations. She is particularly interested in research of data-driven innovation and transformation within ecosystems.

Anne serves as Track Chair for the for the Green IS Track at ECIS 2024 as well as the Digital Responsibility Track at the German International Conference Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI) 2024 and 2025. Moreover, she served as workshop chair for the AIS’ “SIG Green” at ICIS 2024 and ICIS 2019. In addition, she served as AE for ICIS, ECIS, and WI. She is also part of the Editorial Review Board of the CAIS Special Issue on “Digital Innovation for Social Development and Environmental Action Development and Environmental Action” and the JAIS Special Issue on “Digital Responsibility: Social, Ethical, and Ecological Implications of IS”. Moreover, Anne has been active as reviewer for several IS conferences and journals.

Kenan Degirmenci

Queensland University of Technology, Australia

kenan.degirmenci@qut.edu.au

Kenan explores how psychological and economic factors shape decision-making in energy markets, with a particular focus on bridging system-level energy dynamics and individual behaviour. By integrating behavioural economics with information systems, he advances the development of human-centred technologies and service innovations–including electric vehicles and smart energy solutions–to promote sustainable consumer behaviour and support energy policy innovation.

Kenan’s research has been published in leading journals such as Information & Management and the International Journal of Information Management. He has served in editorial roles as Track Chair and Associate Editor at key conferences including ICIS, ECIS, HICSS, and DESRIST. He received several recognitions, such as the Best Conference Paper Award at AMCIS, and currently serves as Secretary of the AIS Special Interest Group on Green Information Systems (SIG Green).

Designing and implementing approaches for a more sustainable future and mitigating the impacts of global climate change by accelerating decarbonization is a societal and moral imperative of our time (Fuldauer et al. 2022). To strengthen the three pillars of sustainability – Environment, Social, and Governance – and to speed up the corresponding sustainability transition, various scholarly fields have acknowledged the obligation to understand and to design solutions for sustainability-related problems (Boh et al. 2023; Gholami et al. 2016; Soergel et al. 2021; Seidler et al. 2017).

This aligns closely with the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals, which emphasize integrated efforts across disciplines and sectors to achieve global sustainability. The solution cannot be generated by one discipline (Gholami et al. 2016). Rather, tackling Grand Global Challenges requires collaborative multi‐disciplinary efforts to which the information systems (IS) scholarship can contribute critical knowledge and expertise (Elliot 2011; Melville 2010; Seidel et al. 2017; Watson et al. 2010).

As IS researchers, we need to contribute towards understanding, explaining, and shaping a more resilient, decarbonized, and sustainable future. To do so, we should analyze the potential trade-offs of decisions that relate to the development, implementation, and use of Green Information Systems (Green IS). Green IS is pivotal for strategic sustainable solutions. It addresses issues associated with IS use by individuals, groups, organizations, and society to support environmentally sustainable practices and processes to emerge and diffuse (Watson et al. 2010).

Green IS suggests that IS can play a pivotal role in enabling more resilient and sustainable solutions and underscores the key role of IS researchers toward environmentally, economically, and socially sustainable development. In particular, we seek contributions that shed light on the collaborative, proactive steps required to support sustainable and resilient developments, such as IS-enabled value co-creation and collaboration in the context of networked systems. Furthermore, advancing sustainable and resilient solutions requires novel combinations of behavioural analytics and system modelling to understand and shape interactions between individual decision-making and broader socio-technical structures.

This conference track is tightly bound to the AIS Special Interest Group on Green Information Systems (SIGGreen). SIGGreen recognizes that the IS discipline can play a central role in creating sustainable development. The scope of SIGGreen is to discuss, develop ideas, and promote the role of IS in the global green agenda for mitigating climate change and fostering “digital decarbonization” through research, education, and community engagement. It spans the dual responsibilities of the IS profession to both reduce its impact on the environment and use its particular expertise to enable others to do so.

Hence, this track is meant to bridge the established topic of Green IS with the emerging topic of Digital Resilience to provide a platform for those in our discipline concerned with how IS can help create resilient and sustainable development. We welcome the entire spectrum of information systems research and invite innovative, rigorous, relevant, and exciting research on IS for resilient and sustainable development. We also appreciate interdisciplinary work as long as a substantive engagement with the IS discourse is maintained.

Track topics

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

Design of information systems to address ecological, social, and/or ethical challenges
The role of IS for building resilience
The role of IS for promoting the pivotal role of individuals in a sustainable future
Sustainable co-creation through platforms, ecosystems, and data sharing
Collaborative and sustainable business models (e.g., circular economy)
IS-based approaches to foster digital decarbonisation
The role of IS in energy sectors (electricity, heat, mobility, …)
Applications of emerging IS innovations (e.g., AI, blockchain) to sustainability realms
Green IS theory development
Behavioural analytics and decision support for sustainability transitions
System modelling approaches to understand IS-enabled sustainability impacts
Human-centred IS design for influencing sustainable behaviours
IS for bridging micro-level decision-making and macro-level sustainability goals
Integrative frameworks combining behavioural insights and system dynamics
Adaptive IS for real-time feedback and behavioural change in energy and mobility

References

Boh, W., Constantinides, P., Padmanabhan, B., Viswanathan, S. (2023): Building digital resilience against major shocks. In: MIS Quarterly, 47(1), pp. 343–360.
Elliot, S. (2011): Transdisciplinary perspectives on environmental sustainability: A resource base and framework for IT-enabled business transformation. In: MIS Quarterly 35 (1), pp. 197–236.
Fuldauer, L.I., Thacker, S., Haggis, R.A. Fuso-Nerini, F., Nicholls, R.J., Hall, J.W. (2022): Targeting climate adaptation to safeguard and advance the Sustainable Development Goals. In: Nat Commun 13, 3579.
Gholami, R., Watson, R. T., Hasan, H., Molla, A., Bjorn-Andersen, N. (2016): Information systems solutions for environmental sustainability: How can we do more? In: Journal of the Association for Information Systems 17 (8), pp. 521–536.
Melville, N. P. (2010): Information systems innovation for environmental sustainability. In: MIS Quarterly 34 (1), pp. 1–21.
Seidel, S., Bharati, P., Fridgen, G., Watson, R. T., Albizri, A., Boudreau, M-C., Butler, T., Kruse, L. C., Guzman, I., Karsten, H., Lee, H., Melville, N. P., Rush, D., Toland, J., Watts, S. (2017): The sustainability imperative in information systems research. In: Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 40 (3).
Seidler, A-R, Henkel, C., Fiedler, M., Kranz, J. (2017): Greening the organisation: An institutional logics approach to corporate pro-environmentalism. In: British Academy of Management Conference 2017, (BAM 2017). British Academy of Management Conference 2017, (BAM 2017). Warwick, GB, September 5-7.
Soergel, B., Kriegler, E., Weindl, I. et al. (2021): A sustainable development pathway for climate action within the UN 2030 Agenda. In: Nat. Clim. Chang. 11, pp. 656–664.
Watson, R. T., Boudreau, M-C., Chen, A. J. (2010): Information systems and environmentally sustainable development: energy informatics and new directions for the IS community. In: MIS Quarterly 34 (1), pp. 23–38.

Alignment with the ECIS 2026 conference theme:

This track aligns closely with the ECIS 2026 conference theme, “Re-imagining Digital Technology for Business, Management, and Society,” by exploring how digital technologies can be designed, implemented, and governed to advance resilient and sustainable futures. As the theme emphasizes the transformative role of emerging technologies such as AI, IoT, digital twins, and blockchain, our track highlights how these innovations can be leveraged in the context of Green IS to support decarbonization, environmental stewardship, and sustainable socio-economic transformation.

Specifically, this track engages with the question of how information systems can reconfigure business models, decision-making processes, and inter-organizational collaboration to tackle global sustainability challenges. It emphasizes the need for responsible and ethically grounded IS innovation that addresses not only technological potential but also societal impact. By bridging Green IS and Digital Resilience, the track contributes to a critical discourse on how the IS discipline can re-imagine its role in enabling systemic change across sectors and support the development of inclusive, data-driven, and sustainable value networks. Integrating behavioural analytics with system modelling offers new perspectives on how digital technologies can mediate and coordinate the dynamics between human behaviour, digital infrastructure, and sustainable system outcomes.

Discussion on how this topic has recently been covered in other conference programs:

The ECIS 2025 track “IS for Resilience and Sustainable Development” is the predecessor to this track and received an excellent number of initial submissions which resulted in ~14 accepted papers (https://ecis2025.eu/track-descriptions/).

At ECIS 2024, the track “Green Information Systems and Sustainable Development” received over 60 submissions, resulting in ~19 accepted papers covering a wide range of Green IS related topics with respect to sustainable development (https://ecis2024.eu/track-descriptions/).

At ECIS 2023, the track “Co-creating Sustainable Digital Futures” was the theme track with a record number of initial submissions (>70) which resulted in ~17 accepted papers (https://ecis2023.no/submissions/track-descriptions/?track=theme)

This track has further similarities to the ICIS 2025 track “IS for Sustainability” and associated “green” topics as listed in the topic list ( https://icis2025.aisconferences.org/submissions/track-descriptions/)

The AMCIS 2025, AMCIS 2024, and AMCIS 2023 had a dedicated Green IS and Sustainability track (e.g., https://amcis2025.aisconferences.org/submissions/track-descriptions/)

The proceedings of the well-established SIGGreen Pre-ICIS workshops can be found here: https://aisel.aisnet.org/sprouts_proceedings_siggreen/

Publishing Opportunities in Leading Journals

Green Information Systems and Sustainable Development have become welcome topics in most of the journals relevant to the Information Systems Community, see, for example the MISQ-E section dedicated to ecological sustainability.

Moreover, Green IS, sustainability, and resilience issues associated with IS have also been central topics in recent Call for Papers of our leading journals, e.g.,

Electronic Markets: https://link.springer.com/collections/bgfdbiiaag

BISE: https://www.bise-journal.com/?p=2282

JAIS: https://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/SI-DigitalSustainabilityFINAL.pdf