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Green IS—Exploring Environmental Sensitive IS Through the Lens of Enterprise Architecture

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For IS domain to support environmental sustainability in firms, it needs to evolve capabilities beyond the traditional IS and respond to the challenges that greening IS (process) would lead to like complexity of integrating environmental sensitivity and plurality of views in designing processes or improving the existing ones, not to mention, the emergent nature of interactions that implementing any form of green IS (outcome) would bring in. Other than fulfilling the automation needs that IS/IT is anyway tasked with, green IS is also expected to seamlessly connect the participating IS/IT elements together in supporting the organizational enactment of sustainability goals. To explore the overlapping issues intertwined with such enactments and to study the environmental avatar of IS sub-elements, Zachman Framework from Enterprise Architecture domain has been leveraged in here as the meta-architecture to reflect on how green IS would interact with the organizational information space and shape it. Findings from the chapter are expected to bring coherence to the multiplicity of views associated with green IS in general and in enriching the field of IS scholarship.

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    TOGAF—The Open Architecture Framework; MODAF—The British Ministry of Defence Architecture Framework; DODAF—The Department of Defense (US) Architecture Framework.

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Debnath, S. (2020). Green IS—Exploring Environmental Sensitive IS Through the Lens of Enterprise Architecture. In: Patnaik, S. (eds) New Paradigm of Industry 4.0. Studies in Big Data, vol 64. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25778-1_8

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