TY - CHAP

T1 - Efficiency

T2 - A Guiding Principle of Corporate Environmental Management Information Systems

AU - Möller, Andreas

PY - 2010

Y1 - 2010

N2 - Recently, there has been increasing recognition that computer-based information systems should better support corporate sustainability management. New administrative approaches, e.g. in the field of emission trading, and recommendations, for instance regarding carbon footprints of products, require a new type of information systems in companies. These new components can be called corporate environmental management information systems (CEMIS). What is the purpose of these systems? They should provide the required information for environmental or sustainability management. But what is the idea behind? What is the guiding principle of these systems? This chapter discusses efficiency as a guiding principle of CEMIS. It helps to understand better basic methodologies like life cycle assessment, and it provides presuppositional knowledge for the challenge of introducing these information instruments

AB - Recently, there has been increasing recognition that computer-based information systems should better support corporate sustainability management. New administrative approaches, e.g. in the field of emission trading, and recommendations, for instance regarding carbon footprints of products, require a new type of information systems in companies. These new components can be called corporate environmental management information systems (CEMIS). What is the purpose of these systems? They should provide the required information for environmental or sustainability management. But what is the idea behind? What is the guiding principle of these systems? This chapter discusses efficiency as a guiding principle of CEMIS. It helps to understand better basic methodologies like life cycle assessment, and it provides presuppositional knowledge for the challenge of introducing these information instruments

KW - Sustainability sciences, Communication

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84898108786&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.4018/978-1-61520-981-1.ch001

DO - 10.4018/978-1-61520-981-1.ch001

M3 - Chapter

SN - 978-1-61520-981-1

SN - 9781616923433

SP - 1

EP - 21

BT - Corporate Environmental Management Information Systems

A2 - Teuteberg, Frank

A2 - Gomez, Jorge Marx

PB - IGI Global Publishing

CY - Hershey

ER -