2022 | Journal of the Association for Information Systems | Citations: 15
Authors: Zampou, Eleni; Mourtos, Ioannis; Pramatari, Katerina; Seidel, Stefan
Abstract: Energy and carbon management systems (ECMS) are a class of green information sy ...
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Abstract: Energy and carbon management systems (ECMS) are a class of green information systems that has the potential to increase environmental sustainability in organizations and across supply chains. Employing a design science research approach, we define the scope of ECMS in the supply chain context, identify requirements, design an expository instantiation, and develop an information systems design theory, including key constructs and design principles. We instantiate this theory in four supply chain contexts to validate and revise the proposed design in two rounds. We identify six system components-data collection, energy monitoring, supply chain coordination, ECMS workflow engine, reporting, and carbon footprint estimator-that integrate and coordinate four types of information flows (transactional, contextual, energy, and product-environmental), and formulate design principles. Our evaluation indicates that the ECMS design theory, if instantiated, supports energy and carbon measurement and environmentally aware decision-making and practice in supply chains. We also highlight how considering energy information flows in combination with material features that afford environmentally aware decision-making and practice are key to qualifying information systems as "green."Roger Chiang was the accepting senior editor. This research article was submitted on December 2, 2019 and underwent two revisions. The second, third, and fourth authors contributed equally and are listed in alphabetical order.Eleni Zampou is a research associate in the Department of Management Science and Technology of the Athens University of Economics and Business and a member of the ELTRUN research group. She has a multidisciplinary educational background that includes computer engineering and informatics, information systems, supply chain management, and environmental sustainability. Her research focuses on digital innovation and transformation in supply chain management and logistics, and she is mainly interested in designing innovative IT solutions and crafting their value propositions. She has twelve years of research and industry experience and has coordinated international research activities in collaboration with major organizations in the areas of retail, supply chain management and logistics, manufacturing, and environmental sustainability. She has also served as a reviewer for several top-tier scientific publications. Her work has been published in various scientific journals, peer-reviewed academic conferences, and books.Ioannis Mourtos is an associate professor in the Department of Management Science and Technology of the Athens University of Economics and Business and scientific coordinator of the ELTRUN research group. He conducts both theoretical and applied work with a primary focus on mathematical programming and combinatorial optimization. In terms of polyhedral analysis, he has worked on multi-index assignment, stable matchings, matroid parity, and maxcut. In terms of computing, he is mainly interested in integer programming, constraint programming, and their integration. His interests in more applied fields are interdisciplinary and include applications of optimization in manufacturing and transport, along with decision support and the design of related information systems. He is particularly focused on energy-aware information systems and how these encompass the use of elaborate modeling and computing methods to optimize relevant sustainability metrics. He has a broad and diverse publication record, serving also as an ad hoc reviewer for several well-known journals. He enjoys an extensive network of international collaborations and has served as scientific coordinator of EU-wide research projects.Katerina Pramatari is an associate professor in the Department of Management Science and Technology of the Athens University of Economics and Business and scientific coordinator of the ELTRUN/SCORE research group. She has received various academic distinctions and scholarships and has published more than 100 papers in scientific journals, peer-reviewed academic conferences, and book chapters in, for example,
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