Green BPM

Overview

Project status: In progress

Organisations are a major contributor to environmental degradation. While traditionally, organisations have primarily focused on economic imperatives in terms of time, cost, efficiency, and quality, they are now increasingly forced to also consider environmental sustainability. In order to lessen their impact on the natural environment, organisations must design and implement environmentally sustainable processes.

http://www.janrecker.com/green-bpm/

Grantor
This project is sponsored by a Fellowship from the Liechtenstein Chapter of the Association for Information Systems.
Research leader
Organisational unit
Lead unit Science and Engineering Faculty
Start date
1st January 2010
End date
31st January 2013
Research area
Information Systems
Keywords
bpm, business process management, green bpm, environment, business

Contact

For further information contact Jan Recker.

 

Details

Organisations are a major contributor to environmental degradation. While traditionally, organisations have primarily focused on economic imperatives in terms of time, cost, efficiency, and quality, they are now increasingly forced to also consider environmental sustainability.

In order to lessen their impact on the natural environment, organisations must design and implement environmentally sustainable processes.

This project intends to immerse deeper into the role of business processes, and specifically the contribution that business process management can play in leveraging the transformative power of information systems for creating environmentally sustainable organisations.

Our key premise is that business and information technology managers need to engage in a process-focused discussion to enable a common, comprehensive understanding of organisational processes, and the process-centred opportunities for making these processes, and ultimately the organisation as a process-centric entity, green.

Publications and output

The project publications below can be downloaded from QUT’s ePrint archive.

  • vom Brocke, J., Seidel, S., Recker, J. (2012) [edited]: Green Business Process Management: Towards the Sustainable Enterprise. Springer, Heidelberg, Germany
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  • Seidel, S., Recker, J., vom Brocke, J. (2012): Green Business Process Management. In J. vom Brocke, S. Seidel, J. Recker (eds.): Green Business Process Management – Towards the Sustainable Enterprise. Springer, Heidelberg, Germany, pp. 3-14.
  • Recker, J., Rosemann, M., Hjalmarsson, A., Lind, M. (2012): Modeling and Analyzing the Carbon Footprint of Business Processes. In J. vom Brocke, S. Seidel, J. Recker (eds.): Green Business Process Management – Towards the Sustainable Enterprise. Springer, Heidelberg, Germany, pp. 93-110.
  • Seidel, S., Recker, J., Pimmer, C., vom Brocke, J. (2010): Enablers and Barriers to the Organizational Adoption of Sustainable Business Practices. In D. Leidner, J. Elam: Proceedings of the 16th Americas Conference on Information Systems. 12-15 August 2010, Lima, Peru.
  • Loos, P., Nebel, W., Gomez, J. M., Hasan, H., Watson, R.T., vom Brocke, J., Seidel, S., Recker, J. (2011): Green IT: A Matter of Business and Information Systems Engineering? Business and Information Systems Engineering, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 245-252.
  • Recker, J. (2011): Green, Greener, BPM? BPTrends, Vol. 8, Iss. 7, pp. 1-8.