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Green Business Process Management

Towards the Sustainable Enterprise

  • Preface by Richard T. Watson

  • Discusses the emerging challenges of designing “green” business processes

  • Presents tools and methods that organizations can use in order to design and implement environmentally sustainable processes

  • Provides insights from cases where organizations successfully engaged in more sustainable business practices

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. Foundations and Directions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Green Business Process Management

      • Stefan Seidel, Jan Recker, Jan vom Brocke
      Pages 3-13
    3. Information Systems in Environmental Sustainability: Of Cannibals and Forks

      • Dirk S. Hovorka, Elaine Labajo, Nancy Auerbach
      Pages 59-72
  3. Tools and Methods

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73
    2. Advancing Business Process Technology for Humanity: Opportunities and Challenges of Green BPM for Sustainable Business Activities

      • Constantin Houy, Markus Reiter, Peter Fettke, Peter Loos, Konstantin Hoesch-Klohe, Aditya Ghose
      Pages 75-92
    3. Modeling and Analyzing the Carbon Footprint of Business Processes

      • Jan Recker, Michael Rosemann, Anders Hjalmarsson, Mikael Lind
      Pages 93-109
    4. Measurement Systems for Sustainability

      • Nicole Zeise, Marco Link, Erich Ortner
      Pages 131-146
    5. Energy Informatics: Initial Thoughts on Data and Process Management

      • Richard T. Watson, Jeffrey Howells, Marie-Claude Boudreau
      Pages 147-159
  4. Cases and Examples

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179
    2. The Potential of a Network-Centric Solution for Sustainability in Business Processes

      • Hans Thies, Ali Dada, Katarina Stanoevska-Slabeva
      Pages 181-201
    3. Understanding the Maturity of Sustainable ICT

      • Edward Curry, Brian Donnellan
      Pages 203-216
    4. Ecosia.org: The Business Case of a Green Search Engine

      • Nils-Holger Schmidt, Thierry Jean Ruch, Jasmin Decker, Lutz M. Kolbe
      Pages 217-232
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 233-251

About this book

​ Green Business Process Management – Towards the Sustainable Enterprise" consolidates the global state-of-the-art knowledge about how business processes can be managed and improved in light of sustainability objectives. Business organizations, a dominant part of our society, have always been a major contributor to the degradation of our natural environment, through the resource consumption, greenhouse emissions, and wastage production associated with their business processes. In order to lessen their impact on the natural environment, organizations must design and implement environmentally sustainable business processes. Finding solutions to this organizational design problem is the key challenge of Green Business Process Management. This book- discusses the emerging challenges of designing “green” business processes,- presents tools and methods that organizations can use in order to design and implement environmentally sustainable processes, and- provides insights from cases where organizations successfully engaged in more sustainable business practices. The book is of relevance to both practitioners and academics who are interested in understanding, designing, and implementing “green” business processes. It also constitutes a valuable resource for students and lecturers in the fields of information systems, management, and sustainable development.

Preface by Richard T. Watson

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From the reviews:

“This book aims to introduce the reader to the new and evolving role that business process management (BPM) can play in helping firms become sustainable enterprises. … The book contains 13 chapters that are grouped in three parts, ‘Foundations and Directions,’ ‘Tools and Methods,’ and ‘Cases and Examples.’ All 13 are standalone pieces and can be read in any order. … In my professional judgment, people unfamiliar with green IT and sustainability literature could learn something new … .” (Don Chand, ACM Computing Reviews, March, 2013)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Inst. of Information Systems, University of Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein

    Jan vom Brocke, Stefan Seidel

  • , School of Information Systems, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

    Jan Recker

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eBook USD 84.99
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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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