Information systems-enabled sustainability transformation: A study of an energy self-sufficient village in Germany

IF 6.5 2区管理学 Q1 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE

Information Systems Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-11 DOI:10.1111/isj.12489

Linna Xu, Wenyu (Derek) Du, Shan L. Pan, Hendrik Send, Matti Grosse

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Abstract

Information systems (IS) play an important role in helping organisations attain environmental sustainability targets, and how to use IS for sustainability transformation is attracting research attention. However, extant studies have mainly focused on such transformation of business enterprises, overlooking it of communities. Our study intends to fill this gap by conducting an in-depth case study at Feldheim, a small village in Germany that has successfully built a renewable energy system using IS and achieved energy self-sufficiency. Guided by the belief-action-outcome (BAO) framework, our study unveiled a process model of antecedents, belief and action formation, and outcomes specific to community-based sustainability transformation. The model also reveals three roles that IS assume in such transformation: participation objects, connectivity enablement, and fluctuation mitigation. Our study contributes to the literature on IS-enabled sustainability transformation by extending it from the business enterprise context to the community context. It also provides communities with guidelines for conducting IS-enabled sustainability transformation.

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信息系统促成的可持续性转型：对德国一个能源自给自足村庄的研究

信息系统（IS）在帮助组织实现环境可持续发展目标方面发挥着重要作用，如何利用信息系统促进可持续发展转型也引起了研究的关注。然而，现有研究主要关注商业企业的这种转型，而忽略了社区的转型。费尔德海姆是德国的一个小村庄，利用信息服务成功建立了可再生能源系统，实现了能源自给自足。在 "信念-行动-结果"（BAO）框架的指导下，我们的研究揭示了社区可持续发展转型所特有的前因、信念和行动的形成以及结果的过程模型。该模型还揭示了信息系统在此类转型中的三种作用：参与对象、连通性赋能和波动缓解。我们的研究从商业企业的背景延伸到社区的背景，从而为有关由信息系统推动的可持续发展转型的文献做出了贡献。它还为社区提供了开展由信息系统推动的可持续发展转型的指导方针。

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Information Systems Journal INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE-

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14.60

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7.80%

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期刊介绍： The Information Systems Journal (ISJ) is an international journal promoting the study of, and interest in, information systems. Articles are welcome on research, practice, experience, current issues and debates. The ISJ encourages submissions that reflect the wide and interdisciplinary nature of the subject and articles that integrate technological disciplines with social, contextual and management issues, based on research using appropriate research methods.The ISJ has particularly built its reputation by publishing qualitative research and it continues to welcome such papers. Quantitative research papers are also welcome but they need to emphasise the context of the research and the theoretical and practical implications of their findings.The ISJ does not publish purely technical papers.