MISQ has issued a Call for Papers for its special issue on Information Systems and Environmental Sustainability (http://www.misq.org/BulletinBoard/GreenIS.pdf). It describes several perspectives might be adopted by researchers in guiding their work:
First, there is the viewpoint that sustainability issues can be prioritized into three categories: generic, value chain, and competitive context (Porter and Kramer 2006). For example, the competitive context calls for a proactive strategic approach and may offer opportunities to illustrate the transformative power of IS.
Second, the four dimensions of the sustainability portfolio (pollution prevention, product stewardship, clean technology, and sustainability vision) (Hart 1997) provide another angle for investigating the role of IS in sustainability.
A third approach could be to examine the role of IS in achieving the three eco-goals: eco-efficiency (DeSimone et al. 1997), eco-equity (Gray and Bebbington 2000), and eco-effectiveness (McDonough and Braungart 1998).
Moving beyond a general viewpoint on sustainability to take a specific IS direction, researchers could elect to apply the belief–action–outcome model (Melville 2010) or the
energy informatics framework (Watson et al. 2010).
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