IT Support for Sustainable Development in Organizations
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What Kind of Information Society?: Governance, Virtuality, Surveillance, Sustainability, Resilience. ed. / Lorenz M. Hilty; Jacques Berleur; Magda David Hercheui. Vol. 328 Springer Verlag, 2010. p. 281-291 (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology; Vol. 328).
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T1 - IT Support for Sustainable Development in Organizations
AU - Möller, Andreas
AU - Rolf, Arno
N1 - Conference code: 21
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - This contribution is based on Habermas’ theory of communicative action and his distinction between lifeworld and social subsystems like the economy, science and public administration. This distinction does not only help in understanding the role of generalized action orientations and symbolic mechanisms in social subsystems, one important conclusion is that evolution and transition of orientations and mechanisms require communication and discourse: communication about problems, about problematic orientations, new ways and mutual insights etc. IT support in this regard (conversation support) plays a completely different role than “normal” information systems that are aimed at the stabilization of established orientations (like in economy profit maximization in combination with Taylor’s efficiency thinking). This allows discussion of different IT solutions with respect to their capabilities supporting the transition phase of sustainable development, as well as their contributions to modified or new generalized action orientations: environmental management information systems (EMIS), specialized modeling tools (e.g. life cycle assessment tools) but also all-purpose tools such as Excel, Email and web-based social networks.
AB - This contribution is based on Habermas’ theory of communicative action and his distinction between lifeworld and social subsystems like the economy, science and public administration. This distinction does not only help in understanding the role of generalized action orientations and symbolic mechanisms in social subsystems, one important conclusion is that evolution and transition of orientations and mechanisms require communication and discourse: communication about problems, about problematic orientations, new ways and mutual insights etc. IT support in this regard (conversation support) plays a completely different role than “normal” information systems that are aimed at the stabilization of established orientations (like in economy profit maximization in combination with Taylor’s efficiency thinking). This allows discussion of different IT solutions with respect to their capabilities supporting the transition phase of sustainable development, as well as their contributions to modified or new generalized action orientations: environmental management information systems (EMIS), specialized modeling tools (e.g. life cycle assessment tools) but also all-purpose tools such as Excel, Email and web-based social networks.
KW - Sustainability sciences, Communication
KW - Communicative Action
KW - Systemic Mechanisms
KW - Communication
KW - Conversation
KW - Generalized Action Orientation
KW - Lifeworld
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85032340418&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-15479-9_27
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-15479-9_27
M3 - Article in conference proceedings
SN - 978-3-642-15478-2
VL - 328
T3 - IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
SP - 281
EP - 291
BT - What Kind of Information Society?
A2 - Hilty, Lorenz M.
A2 - Berleur, Jacques
A2 - Hercheui, Magda David
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 21st World Computer Congress - 2010
Y2 - 20 September 2010 through 23 September 2010
ER -