Abstract-CreatingATaxonomy-Mauricio

=Creating a Taxonomy of Green IT / IS, Corporate Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility: A Literature Review=

Mauricio Marrone, Nils-Holger Schmidt, Lutz M. Kolbe

Abstract
The increasing dissemination of information systems into all areas of business and personal life has drawn attention to its environmental effects. IS organizations are becoming aware that they have to take up their responsibility by thinking seriously about sustainability management for information systems. While technical measures for using computing resources efficiently have received considerable attention, the topic of sustainability in IS management is still lacking theoretical foundation. Sustainability has been extensively discussed within corporate management under the synonyms of corporate social responsibility (CSR), greening the business, eco-efficiency or eco-advantage. Although many studies concerning sustainability have been introduced, it has not been clearly related to Green IT / IS until now. The aim of this research is to provide a topic map and/or taxonomy for linking all relevant concepts. This is done by a thorough bibliographic analysis on the main terminology of Corporate Sustainability. Our main goal is to link Green IT and Green IS to the overall Corporate Sustainability movement. Through a review of the three major IS journals (MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research Journal and Information and Management) and three major management journals (Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal and Academy of Management Review) we will compile the definitions utilized for the terms: Corporate Sustainability, Sustainability, Sustainable, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Responsibility, Corporate Citizenship, Stakeholder Theory, Green IT, Green IS and Environmental IS. The time period that is considered for this study comprises journals which were published from 2006 to 2010.

The following two approaches for the identification of relevant literature will be utilized 1) Identification relevant articles in leading journals by searching the body text for relevant terms 2) Go backward approach by means of reviewing the citations used by the articles to describe the term 3) Ranking the found articles according to their citation impact

We will outline the terms that are often found for these definitions. Through the collation of the definition we will attempt to model the scope of each definition and create clear boundaries and links amongst these. The paper also creates a congregated definition for these terms based on previous definitions. Our research will provide a topic map and/or taxonomy for all terms. This will give IS researchers and IS professionals orientation and enable them to overlook the Green IT / IS research area and relate their activities to it.

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