Transformation of the IT function at British Petroleum
MIS Quarterly
A set of principles for conducting and evaluating interpretive field studies in information systems
MIS Quarterly - Special issue on intensive research in information systems
Information Systems Research
Coordinating Expertise Among Emergent Groups Responding to Disasters
Organization Science
Organizing and the Process of Sensemaking
Organization Science
Information Technology and the Changing Fabric of Organization
Organization Science
Information Systems for Managers: Texts and Cases
Information Systems for Managers: Texts and Cases
A Meta-Theory for Understanding Information Systems Within Sociotechnical Systems
Journal of Management Information Systems
Online Social Shopping: The Functions and Symbols of Design Artifacts
HICSS '10 Proceedings of the 2010 43rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
The PC (polluting computer): Forever a tragedy of the commons?
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
Information technology as a change actant in sustainability innovation: Insights from Uppsala
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
Designing IT systems according to environmental settings: A strategic analysis framework
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
From green to sustainability: Information Technology and an integrated sustainability framework
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
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This paper explores how a world-wide operating software solutions provider implemented environmentally sustainable business practices in response to emerging environmental concerns. Through an interpretive case study, we develop a theoretical framework that identifies four important functional affordances originating in information systems, which are required in environmental sustainability transformations as they create an actionable context in which (1) organizations can engage in a sensemaking process related to understanding emerging environmental requirements, and (2) individuals can implement environmentally sustainable work practices. Through our work, we provide several contributions, including a better understanding of IS-enabled organizational change and the types of functional affordances of information systems that are required in sustainability transformations. We describe implications relating to (1) how information systems can contribute to the creation of environmentally sustainable organizations, (2) the design of information systems to create required functional affordances, (3) the management of sustainability transformations, and (4) the further development of the concept of functional affordances in IS research.