Sustainability has increasingly become important to business research and practice over
the past decades as a result of rapid depletion of natural resources and concerns over
wealth disparity and corporate social responsibility. Within this realm, the so-called triple
bottom line seeks to evaluate business performance on its impacts on the environment and
interested stakeholders besides profitability concerns. So far, Management Information
Systems research on sustainability has been somewhat constrained in the realm of green
IT, which focuses mostly on the reduction of energy consumption of corporate IT systems.
Using the resource-based view as the theoretical foundation, the manuscript develops an
integrated sustainability framework, illustrating the integration of human, supply chain,
and IT resources to enable firms develop sustainability capabilities, which help firms deliver
sustainable values to relevant stakeholders and gain sustained competitive advantage.
Particularly, the role of automate, informate, transform, and infrastructure IT resources are
examined in the development of sustainability capabilities. The work calls for a bold new
role of IT in sustainability beyond energy consumption reduction. Implications for future
research and management practice on IT and sustainability are also discussed.
Sustainability has increasingly become important to business research and practice overthe past decades as a result of rapid depletion of natural resources and concerns overwealth disparity and corporate social responsibility. Within this realm, the so-called triplebottom line seeks to evaluate business performance on its impacts on the environment andinterested stakeholders besides profitability concerns. So far, Management InformationSystems research on sustainability has been somewhat constrained in the realm of greenIT, which focuses mostly on the reduction of energy consumption of corporate IT systems.Using the resource-based view as the theoretical foundation, the manuscript develops anintegrated sustainability framework, illustrating the integration of human, supply chain,and IT resources to enable firms develop sustainability capabilities, which help firms deliversustainable values to relevant stakeholders and gain sustained competitive advantage.Particularly, the role of automate, informate, transform, and infrastructure IT resources areexamined in the development of sustainability capabilities. The work calls for a bold newrole of IT in sustainability beyond energy consumption reduction. Implications for futureresearch and management practice on IT and sustainability are also discussed.
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