From green to sustainability: Information Technology and an integrated sustainability framework

Authors:
Viet Dao;Ian Langella;Jerry Carbo
Affiliations:
Grove College of Business, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, 1871 Old Main Drive, Shippensburg, PA 17257, USA;Grove College of Business, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, 1871 Old Main Drive, Shippensburg, PA 17257, USA;Grove College of Business, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, 1871 Old Main Drive, Shippensburg, PA 17257, USA
Venue:
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
Year:
2011

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Abstract

Sustainability has increasingly become important to business research and practice over the past decades as a result of rapid depletion of natural resources and concerns over wealth disparity and corporate social responsibility. Within this realm, the so-called triple bottom line seeks to evaluate business performance on its impacts on the environment and interested stakeholders besides profitability concerns. So far, Management Information Systems research on sustainability has been somewhat constrained in the realm of green IT, which focuses mostly on the reduction of energy consumption of corporate IT systems. Using the resource-based view as the theoretical foundation, the manuscript develops an integrated sustainability framework, illustrating the integration of human, supply chain, and IT resources to enable firms develop sustainability capabilities, which help firms deliver sustainable values to relevant stakeholders and gain sustained competitive advantage. Particularly, the role of automate, informate, transform, and infrastructure IT resources are examined in the development of sustainability capabilities. The work calls for a bold new role of IT in sustainability beyond energy consumption reduction. Implications for future research and management practice on IT and sustainability are also discussed.